[Klug-general] OpenOffice 2.0 and Java

[Athon Solo]

You can also specify -java on your use flags. Add the following line to 
/etc/portage/package.use (create it if it doesn't exist):
app-office/openoffice-bin -java

Allen

Paul Littlefield wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> Just a quick tip / comment about the new OpenOffice 2.0.
> 
> After a recent upgrade on my Gentoo system, I noticed that OOo had been 
> updated to the new 2.0 release.
> 
> I clicked on my shortcut and waited... and waited... and waited. For a full 1 
> minute before anything happened. This on a AMD64 3.7GHz machine with 3Gb of 
> RAM was unacceptable.
> 
> A peek at top revealed that the ooffice2 binary was looking for a Java library 
> and this was taking a real hit on my resources.
> 
> Now comes the interesting part.
> 
> If you go into the options dialog box (Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > 
> Java) you can turn the Java facility off... but this dialog box keeps 
> crashing. However, if you wait and use your keyboard to navigate around the 
> tick boxes and buttons, you can turn it off, hit OK and now...
> 
> ...OpenOffice starts in under 2 seconds.
> 
> :-)
>