From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R0rij-0000xq-Go for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:13:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1627C21C07D; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F87F21C06A for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B274F62.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.79.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4073D39A00B for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Message-ID: <20110906111208.393cc39d@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20110906015104.GB2510@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <20110906015104.GB2510@acm.acm> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2c545d0d05da1c798a2b1118c03ac2ac Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hi, Alex. > > Graham Murray wonders: > > > > Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? > > > Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD > > > world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use > > > flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, > > > then there was an -r1 release and today there is yet another use > > > flag change. > > > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so > > the cups USE flag has been removed. > > What??? I run lprng on my machine, not cups. Does that mean that > libreoffice will be broken the next time I update? Please tell me I've > misunderstood what you've just said. I don't know much about this, I just did a diff /var/db/pkg/app-office/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild. The IUSE line no longer has cups, the dependency of net-print/cups is mandatory, and --enable-cups is always given as configure option. Yes, this means you will need cups. I don't know if you somehow could still print when it is not configured. > Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, > its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely > I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or > using cups? Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution. But other applications, like Konqueror, do not have this option, so I have multiple printers configured in order to select the resolution. BTW, how is your situation with lprng now, can you change the resolution in Firefox' print dialog? I never liked CUPS, but then, at least there is some interface to configure its options. I don't do much printing anyway, so I can live with that. Well, seems I have to. Wonko