Hi Stephan,

On Thursday 01 of November 2007, Stephan Bergmann wrote:

> > My vision is that on modern Linux distros, you won't need
> > ooo-libs-3rdparty at all, because you will have all the packages in the
> > distro already, and you'll be able to install them from there (most
> > probably with the corresponding -devel packages).  But for the Win32
> > builders, searching for the dependencies could be too expensive - that's
> > why I propose the 'super-source-package' ;-) Of course, we can go the way
> > of ooo-3rdparty-dictionaries, ooo-3rdparty-epm, ooo-3rdparty-hsqldb, etc.
> > but I'm not sure if it helps in the end...
>
> Keep in mind that the current situation is that some 3rdparty stuff
> checked into OOo is either/both:
>
> - accompanied by patch files to adapt to OOo requirements,
>
> - required by OOo in specific versions.
>
> So, in general, without cleanup, replacing 3rdparty stuff checked into
> OOo with 3rdparty stuff available in the environment is just not working.

Yes, that's why I named it a 'vision' ;-) - I hope that we agree that we would 
like to up-stream the OOo-specific patches to the appropriate 3rd party 
projects [which even happened in some cases from what I know].  So - I hope 
the cleanup will take place.

Regards,
Jan

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