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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:06:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050828060635.GA1977@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <026101c5ab7d$c341fab0$0501a8c0@croatus>

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:07:52PM -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> Anyone know why Open Office would require USE=???hardened??? ?

huh? To my knowledge, no package would REQUIRE a useflag. 

> Or is this here to show that it can be installed in a hardened Gentoo environment?

The line IUSE=".... hardened ..." in the ebuild specifies that it CAN
be built with the hardened flag, probably for PIE. 

> I noticed some postings based on people installing it with -hardened (and having problems), but I don't have a hardened Gentoo install and don't want this to bork, since I'm sure it will take a while to compile...

OpenOffice is app-office, I highly doubt most people using OpenOffice,
i.e., on a desktop, would seriously need/want hardened. 

Go ahead and emerge it with -hardened. 

W
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-28  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-28  3:07 [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags John Dangler
2005-08-28  6:06 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2005-08-28  6:42   ` John Dangler
2005-08-28  8:28     ` Nick Rout
2005-08-28 13:43       ` John Dangler

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