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 1R0l1m-00053o-E8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:04:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 485A721C129; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 02:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f171.google.com (mail-ey0-f171.google.com [209.85.215.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C573A21C023 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 02:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg24 with SMTP id 24so3152384eyg.16 for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:03:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=tWVHc0+lWIC8WxIJMTkJFlYjwHr3nStbuypr7cMwiR0=; b=iWIXK2GDhtgbjcwkH/jwyenG3FumnRvnlMu2NV8BSQbggA86DqtWfZVn289NtP0kgG 18ruWRGU5/+1SsGpCBzdz+RHjCcdPrkIewee6Ju+xZqaigHyDNoPgvm21b/5o9uAiF4G AYE0J50QsccEcNzBY6MxVThbP8OLXz2B1ay4o= 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 Received: by 10.14.16.103 with SMTP id g79mr1476732eeg.64.1315274603982; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.45.13 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110906015104.GB2510@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <20110906015104.GB2510@acm.acm> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:03:23 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? From: Brennan Shacklett To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e65bc3828d70da04ac3c3b08 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 677fa5d84daedd002245d67565bf873f --0016e65bc3828d70da04ac3c3b08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Alex. > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:34:22PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > 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. > > 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? > > > I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask > > it, as compiling it again would not change a thing when the cups USE > > flag was enabled already. > > > Wonko > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > > I'm afraid that cups is now a mandatory dependency for libreoffice, just check in the ebuild. libreoffice will still work without cups running though, you just can't print... :( --Brennan --0016e65bc3828d70da04ac3c3b08 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On
Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Alan Mackenz= ie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
Hi, Alex.

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:34:22PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 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 h= as
> > rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag cha= nge,
> > then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there w= as 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??? =A0I run lprng on my machine, not cups. =A0Does that mean tha= t
libreoffice will be broken the next time I update? =A0Please tell me I'= ve
misunderstood what you've just said.

Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. =A0Surely I'= m
not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or using
cups?

> I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask<= br> > it, as compiling it again would not change a thing when the cups USE > flag was enabled already.

> =A0 =A0 =A0 Wonko

--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

I'm afraid that cups is now a mandatory depen= dency for libreoffice, just check in the ebuild.
libreoffice will still work without cups running though, you just can't= print... :(

--Brennan

--0016e65bc3828d70da04ac3c3b08--