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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:33:05
Message-Id: 20110906152758.GA9867@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? by Alex Schuster
1 Hi, Alex.
2
3 On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
4 > Alan Mackenzie writes:
5
6 > > > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now,
7 > > > so the cups USE flag has been removed.
8
9 > > What??? I run lprng on my machine, not cups. Does that mean that
10 > > libreoffice will be broken the next time I update? Please tell me
11 > > I've misunderstood what you've just said.
12
13 > I don't know much about this, I just did a
14 > diff /var/db/pkg/app-office/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild.
15 > The IUSE line no longer has cups, the dependency of net-print/cups is
16 > mandatory, and --enable-cups is always given as configure option. Yes,
17 > this means you will need cups. I don't know if you somehow could still
18 > print when it is not configured.
19
20 I've had a google about this thing. gentoo-user seems about the only
21 place this issue is discussed. Is this imposition of cups being done by
22 LibreOffice or by our own Gentoo Projektbetreuer?
23
24 BTW, does anybody know a good office suite that runs on standard
25 GNU/LINUX infrastructural assumptions?
26
27 > Wonko
28
29 --
30 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).