[ltp] Gentoo
Tony Sequeira
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:43:56 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:37:44 -0700, Peter Johanson wrote
>
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:58:19PM +0100, Tony Sequeira wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:02:39 -0400, Charles E Taylor IV wrote
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 06:41:51 -0700
> > > Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > /me cites the openoffice-bin package in gentoo for just that
> > reason...
> > > > (:
> > >
> > > Yeah - I knew about that one. :)
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, what would that be?
>
> the openoffice-bin package is a package to install the binary
> openoffice. Keeps you from having to spend the hours and hours of
> compiling if you don't want to...
>
> used to be xfree that people bemoanded having to compile, now it's
OOo.
> (:
Ah, thanks. I must have a play with Gentoo when I have some time.
--
Tony