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On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: |
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> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: |
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>> For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke |
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>> dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. |
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>> The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 |
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> I have bison-2.5, but am using libreoffice-bin which seems fine. |
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Yes, that would be expected because bison is needed only at compile time, |
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not at run time. |
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I would be using libreoffice-bin too, except for a ridiculous change made |
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about a year ago in the way openoffice charts are scaled on the y-axis. |
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I complained bitterly on the openoffice 'chart' mail list, only to discover |
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that openoffice changed its perfectly good scaling algorithm to ape a change |
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made in M$ Office! |
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Nobody at openoffice.org would consider reverting that ridiculous mee-too |
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change, so I've been editing the open(libre)office source code to remove it |
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myself before compiling it. I was very disappointed to find a major open- |
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source project following M$ around like a hungry puppy :( |