On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > snip > > >> And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p > > > > Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages > > available. It takes around 15 hours :( > > So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate > packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This would get rid of > that nonsense of 15 hrs for a single package build.
haha, good joke, nice one, you just made my day. Oh wait, you mean you're serious? Erm, well, I once did have a peek into the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was .... scary. If no-one has had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't hold it against them. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
