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diff --git a/office/LibreOffice/README b/office/LibreOffice/README index e496e0ed49..1f868fb2aa 100644 --- a/office/LibreOffice/README +++ b/office/LibreOffice/README @@ -7,16 +7,34 @@ flowcharting application, Base, our database and database frontend, and Math for editing mathematics. This SlackBuild builds the entire project from its source code. In seeking a -fully functional LibreOffice, most optional features are included by default. -Build time environment variables that may set to vary features are as follows: +fully functional LibreOffice, most optional features are included by default, +using internal versions of any external software components that may be needed. +This results in a very small number of directly required additional software +packages. + +However most of this additional software is also available as SBo SlackBuilds. +During configuration, the LibreOffice SlackBuild will detect any such packages +that are already installed and use them in preference to building its own +internal versions. Packages from SBo that will be use in this way are: + CoinMP cppunit glm libabw libcdr libcmis libe-book libeot libepubgen + libexttextcat libfreehand libmspub libmwaw libnumbertext liborcus + libpagemaker libqxp libnumbertext libstaroffice libtommath libwps libzmf + lpsolve mythes postgresql qt5 valgrind ucpp unixODBC avahi + mysql-connector-c++ libetonyek xmlsec vlc + +Remember, these packages are not essential but entirely optional. If not found, +LibreOffice will simply build its own internal versions. + +Also keep in mind that any package from the above list which is detected and +used when building LibreOffice will most likely become a runtime dependency too +e.g. if avahi is detected and used at build time, it will also need to be +installed at run time. + +Build time environment variables that may be set to vary features are as follows: 1. enable the experimental VLC avmedia backend (disabled by default) with: VLC="yes" This requires the vlc package (available from SBo) to be installed. -2. enable avahi support (disabled by default) with: - AVAHI="yes" - This requires the avahi package (available from SBo) to be installed. - 3. disable kde4 support (enabled by default) with: KDE4="no" |