OpenOffice is now in
Nixpkgs (screenshot of
OpenOffice 2.2.1 running under NixOS, and another
screenshot). Despite being a rather gigantic package (it
takes two hours to compile on an Intel Core 2 6700), OpenOffice
had only two “impurities” (references to paths outside of the
Nix store) in its build
process that had to be resolved — a reference to
/bin/bash and one to /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.
Armijn Hemel, Wouter den Breejen and Eelco Dolstra contributed to the Nix expression for OpenOffice.
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