* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags
@ 2005-08-28 6:06 99% ` Willie Wong
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From: Willie Wong @ 2005-08-28 6:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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