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From: Joshua Pollak <pardsbane@offthehill.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openoffice ebuild (needs maintainer :-)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:23:57 -0500
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It seems like for an application like this, perhaps the best thing to do 
would be to launch their default installer or something... perhaps track the 
files that are installed somehow or something? Or just use the binary 
release. I can't imagine anyone willing to spend 12 hours and 2 gigs to 
compile something they can just download in binary form from the website. 
Perhaps I'm wrong about that though. ;)

On Friday 07 December 2001 2:12, you wrote:
> tor 2001-12-06 klockan 21.47 skrev Dan Armak:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been working on an app-office/openoffice ebuild, but have had some
> > trouble. I believe it can be compiled, but a successful compile would

> Does anyone want to compile this or can't we just use the binary release
> and put it in /opt?
>
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal