I've posted this to the gentoo-dev Mailing List some weeks ago, unfortunately it seems to have gone unnoted so that we still can not properly depend on virtual/ooo: "I've now added this (virtual/ooo), the default is set to openoffice-bin. Could the responsible Arch-devs please check if this default is ok for them, or correct this for their architecture, so that we can happily depend on virtual/ooo in the future. For instance SPARC does not have a version of openoffice-bin, also the PPC one is quite old" This should be corrected quite soon
Sparc and PPC-mantainers please comment on this one.
Couple of points: 1- Why do we need the virtual? 2- openoffice.org doesn't provide linux/sparc binaries, what's the solution to this? (build our own, ?) PPC is probably in a similar ship with ooo.org not providing the latest that fast for them i suppose. Thanks.
I've added the virtual to the ppc cascaded profiles, we'll use app-office/openoffice. Do you want ppc to provide oo.o binaries?
@Joe: Great! About the binaries: I'll leave that up to you, I'm just happy when the virtual works ;) @Gustavo: There are a few packages which need OOo installed to do anything useful, like ooextras or ooqstart. And as we have a few different flavours of OOo in portage it makes sense to introduce a virtual to properly depend on it. About which one to use: If there is no -bin just use one of the source builds, so either app-office/openoffice or app-office/openoffice-ximian, which one you prefer or works better for your arch.
Ok, fixed for sparc. My -bin question is not really about this, it's because some slow sparc users could benefit from it.
