There are several potential improvements: - try to download the help file for the linguas selected (not really tested) - use flags: - python to use system python instead of bundled one (saves 2 megs and build time) - nas to use system nas library instead of bundled one - neon to try to use system neon (won't work until ooo-ximian uses neon-0.24, etc.) - berkdb to use system db-4.xxx a small patch is required for berkdb, due to the fact that lib names are V.v in 4 (db-4.1 or db-4.2) instead of just db-2 or db-3 in previous versions Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: I built it and tested pyuno, it is working. Also, it is using /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so, I'll attach the patch once the "bug" is posted.
Created attachment 50147 [details, diff] patch for several changes in ooo-x ebuild. partially tested, it seems to work (except for neon and the help downloading)
A few notes, cause there is a reason for each of these not being in portage atm: *) nas should be ok, but as I don't use it, can't test it, anyway if you say it works for you, I'm going to put it in *) system-db and system-python: Both are very difficult to depend on, things can break easily with that, so extra care has to be taken. OOo is already a very fragile build, so I don't want to make it even worse (more options usually mean with OOo also more possibility to break things ;) ). At least with system-db: Not going to do this, at least until it works out of the box. About system-python: Going to try it and see how feasible it is. *) Neon: Not going to do this, until it works properly (with all versions), also not a lot gain in this. *) About helpcontent download: The way you implemented it, it won't work for several reasons, one is, that it's not possible to mess with SRC_URI that way, as it will not create correct digests. The other is, that not for all we support, there also is a helpcontent, so their build would fail at this point. But I plan to work out a solution for this anyway, but this has quite low priority.
I've now added system-python and nas-support to the ebuild, about the rest: See my previous post. Thanks for reporting, a well done bug report is always a pleasure to work with, wish we could have more of that...
No problem, I expected this kind of output/reaction. Packaging issues are very difficult. I mostly wanted to document the tests and alternatives hare. Re: with-system-python, the only caveat is that the python.sh launcher in /opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/program is now broken. To get python working with ooo-ximian, one needs to: - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/program - export PYTHONPATH=/opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/program start python (or idle) Then, examples in http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html should work. import uno, ... Probably python.sh should be either removed or, better, test for presence of embedded python and behave as I said in case it is not there. But I thought people using pyuno integration are supposed to be knowledgeable enough to skip over this for the moment. An alternative would be to have USE="-python" imply "--without-python" and save the pyuno bridge for people not wanting it.
