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 <gentoo-user+bounces-127697-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1R0xe5-0000Ro-Am for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:33:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C09421C0C1; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D235021C067 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11276 invoked by uid 3782); 6 Sep 2011 15:31:37 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A7AA.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.167.170]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:31:36 +0200 Received: (qmail 9891 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Sep 2011 15:27:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:27:58 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Message-ID: <20110906152758.GA9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <20110906015104.GB2510@acm.acm> <20110906111208.393cc39d@weird.wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110906111208.393cc39d@weird.wonkology.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 64224d551bb833362948dc4460ccade4 Hi, Alex. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > > 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. I've had a google about this thing. gentoo-user seems about the only place this issue is discussed. Is this imposition of cups being done by LibreOffice or by our own Gentoo Projektbetreuer? BTW, does anybody know a good office suite that runs on standard GNU/LINUX infrastructural assumptions? > Wonko -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).