Linux fat/bloated

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:43:38PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Case in point... older versions of OpenOffice.  Would not build
> without PAM, and wouldn't build or run without Java.  After a lot of
> yelling and screaming, the current version will build against GCJ
> instead of a Java runtime, and it'll build with merely PAM-headers
> present, not requiring PAM itself.  It's one of the few packages for
> which I opt to use a pre-built binary.

Somehow debian managed to make it run without java (I think it MIGHT
have needed java to build).  Not sure why any system would not want pam
anyhow.

Len Sorensen
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