Re: OpenOffice? OMG!! Has ANYONE actually managed to install it?

From: ric_man (rdefrance_NO_SPAM__at__NO_SPAM_gmail.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:29:39 +1100

Jose Lopez wrote:
> Yet in your own words you say:
>
>>I use Gentoo, and it's one of the few packages I try to put off
>>upgrading when an update is announced... it takes on average about 2
>>hours to compile... why I never just used the binary package (also in
>>the Gentoo repository) I'll never know...
>>
>>Thankfully it doesn't happen very often, and I don't have much actual
>>interaction with it to compile it...
>
> Sounds like you dread playing with OO.

I do dislike having to compile it... but it does compile easily
(Gentoo's portage system takes care of that), installs easily (once
again due to Gentoo's portage system), and is very easy to use...

Jose saying "Sounds like you dread playing with OO." makes it sound I
totally hate OO.o, which is not the case. I just have to schedule the
upgrade to new version of OO.o while I'm not using the computer - like
at night while I sleep. The compilation doesn't stop me from using OO.o
while the compilation takes place, but there is a slight performance hit
due to disk I/O access... It's quite amazing how Jose can summarize the
4 paragraphs I wrote into the one line... a better feat would be to do
it accurately...

Jose originally stated:
"No wonder nobody is using OpenOffice.
I could install and type 12 thesis's with Microsoft Windows in the time
it would take to get OpenOffice installed and running".

Well, I use OO.o, and so do 5 people I know. Therefore, the total number
of users is not nobody, but at least 5+ people. :-) Or are you trying to
say we're all nobodies... :-(

Secondly, if you installed OO.o from the precompiled binaries, it would
install in less time then if you installed Microsoft Windows or MS
Office. Then you'd have all that time left over to write your 12
"thesis's" (which is an awesome feat to do... 12 "thesis's" in around 2
hours - can someone check that time against the Guiness World Record
book :-) ). Try installing and running MS Office from source code...

So in my own words, "So to address the original poster - Jose Lopez, I
found OO.o easy to compile, install and use."

...Ric 

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