Wilie~ Thanks for the reply. I did leave it out. I kept reading and couldn't find anywhere except portage (and the hardened docs) where it would be necessary for anything in 'daily life'. And, the references I did find for it were all linked to PIE. The USE flags I quoted were from portage. Looking at the package and selecting USE flags. I've taken to looking at all of the information about a package before emerging -- it saves a lot of backstrokes in the long run, and I keep notes about which flags I've added to make.conf for which packages, along with the defaults that are already there...
John D -----Original Message----- From: Willie Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags 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 -- Q: What's grey and proves the nondenumerability of the Reals? A: Cantor's Diagonal Elephant Sortir en Pantoufles: up 16 days, 9:06 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
