On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, econti wrote:
> Hi all
> I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran
>
> emerge -s openoffice
> and here is the result
>
> * app-office/openoffice
>     Latest version available: 2.4.0
>     Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>     Size of files: 247,060 kB
>     Homepage:    http://go-oo.org
>     Description:  OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.
>     License:     LGPL-2
>
> * app-office/openoffice-bin
>     Latest version available: 2.4.0
>     Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>     Size of files: 1,149,284 kB
>     Homepage:    http://www.openoffice.org/
>     Description:  OpenOffice productivity suite
>     License:     LGPL-2
>
>
> Questions:
> 1 - the difference between openoffice and openoffice-bin

maybe oo has nicer looking fonts. It starts a little bit faster, but after
that no difference in speed.

> 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB
> Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor?

extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a
year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it.

If you are even able to. Openoffice is a bitch to compile. Even the slightest
change might break the compilation. It really, really sucks. IMHO openoffice
is a nice example for everything that is wrong.

Go with openoffice-bin.

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