[wellylug] Suggestion for Monday night

[Lindsay Hunter]

As I recall, we are going to be talking to the guy (?) from 2020 Trust about
recycled desktops?

The Open Office suggestion also sounds useful.

Lindsay Hunter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damon Lynch [mailto:damon at dev-zone.org]
> Sent: Sunday, 11 August, 2002 16:13
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [wellylug] Suggestion for Monday night
>
>
> I was wondering if it was a good idea if the wellylug could try to
> attempt to package openoffice as an RPM, and I guess as a deb if some
> are keen on that too.
>
> I was thinking it would be worthwhile because we could compile it
> against a specific architecture, and with a "good" freetype.  Both of
> these were done for Mandrake 8.2 and it made a real difference
> apparently (it certainly did with the fonts anyway).
>
> Since the Mandrake 9.0 betas don't currently have an openoffice RPM, I
> thought it may be a good candidate (perhaps along with RedHat's new
> one).
>
> There would be quite a bit to learn, I think:
>         1. How to set it up to compile against a specific architecture
>         2. How to look at an existing openoffice RPM, and take the core
>            of the configuration and copy it across to make a new one
>         3. How to get it to use a specific library instead of the
>            provided ones, e.g. freetype, libstdc++
>         4. How to get all the binaries and actually put it into an RPM
> I don't know how to do any of these, but it would be nice to learn :-)
>
> Obviously there is no way at all we could do the actual compile on the
> night, but we could formulate a team to do it and get the plan underway.
>
> Damon
>
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