Bug 284192

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 should make components selectable with USE flags
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Attila Stehr <as.gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	major	CC:	b.brachaczek, pacho
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Attila Stehr 2009-09-08 16:08:41 UTC

On windows I can select only to install calc and writer.

There should be a way not to clutter up my system with components which are not used - like e.g. oobase and ooimpress!
Being able to do it is a major feature, so I'd appreciate to keep the severity on that level.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
something like:
USE="calc writer -base -impress" emerge -v openoffice

Comment 1 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-09 15:31:12 UTC

This sounds hard... Patches accepted, I'm sure...
(Openoffice has a build system that barely qualifies for the name)

Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-28 21:42:49 UTC

this really is neither as easy nor as useful as it might sound, 90+ percent of OOo are shared code, so there is no big win by removing components. Also it is faaaaar from trivial.

So if someone wants to have it: Patches accepted. Reopen if you have something working.