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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
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>> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> snip |
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>>>> And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p |
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>>> Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages |
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>>> available. It takes around 15 hours :( |
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>> So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate |
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>> packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This would get rid of |
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>> that nonsense of 15 hrs for a single package build. |
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> haha, good joke, nice one, you just made my day. |
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> Oh wait, you mean you're serious? Erm, well, I once did have a peek into |
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> the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was .... scary. If no-one has |
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> had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't |
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> hold it against them. |
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> alan |
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LOL! Hadn't realized it was that bad. Wonder who the culprit is? The |
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original German group that wrote it or Sun when they got their hands on it. |
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Tony |
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary |
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Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |
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-- Benjamin Franklin |
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