Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Brennan Shacklett]

On
Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:

> Hi, Alex.
>
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:34:22PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Graham Murray wonders:
>
> > > Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today
> > > is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has
> > > rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change,
> > > then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there was an
> > > -r1 release and today there is yet another use flag change.
>
> > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so
> > the cups USE flag has been removed.
>
> What???  I run lprng on my machine, not cups.  Does that mean that
> libreoffice will be broken the next time I update?  Please tell me I've
> misunderstood what you've just said.
>
> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its
> wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration.  Surely I'm
> not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or using
> cups?
>
> > I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask
> > it, as compiling it again would not change a thing when the cups USE
> > flag was enabled already.
>
> >       Wonko
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
> I'm afraid that cups is now a mandatory dependency for libreoffice, just
check in the ebuild.
libreoffice will still work without cups running though, you just can't
print... :(

--Brennan