--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Mathias Bauer <mathias_ba...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > I'm not against unpacking the tarballs and applying the > patches, but we should keep the patches somewhere so that > updates could be done with the same effort as today. > This could fly. I like having the patches around. I would only request that GNU patch is not a requirement to build the OO. Just for reference, FreeBSD's base has contrib area (part of the release) http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/ and a vendor area which is an intermediate step: (not part of the release) http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/ > Another advantage of unpacking the tarballs: the patches > will become *real* patches that just contain changes of > the original source code. I definitely like that, yes. Another thing is: we have to teach GNU configure to skip building stuff when an installed binary package of the same thing is available. Pedro.
