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+OpenOffice.org is a full-featured open-source office suite that is compatible 
+with all other major office software.
+
+This script builds a Slackware package from the official binary (RPM's) 
+distributed by openoffice.org.  Everything needed by the application should 
+be built statically into it, so there aren't any dependencies not satisfied 
+by a normal installation.  A java runtime environment (jre) is suggested by 
+openoffice.org, but it is not required.
+
+Please don't file bug reports relating to the fact that the resulting package 
+doesn't open MS Office files by default.  Default applications to open specific 
+file types is a per-user setting, and and installing some application should 
+not change it.  See these two links for more info: 
+  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo_2dspec
+  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmime_2dactions_2dspec
+
+Please don't file reports about us not using the the 'slackware-menus' package
+included in the desktop-integration/ directory.  We don't use that package for
+the following reasons:
+  1. The package installs to /opt/openoffice.org2.2, but then a symlink is 
+     created in /etc to that same directory (/etc/openoffice.org2.2).
+     This is not expected behavior from Slackware packages - we don't typically
+     put binary files in /etc, and we certainly don't have entire software 
+     packages installed there - that will wreak havoc on anyone who does a 
+     regular backup of the entire /etc directory.
+  2. It installs the icons to /opt/kde/share/icons instead of /usr/share/icons.
+     This is fine if you're running kde, but for those people who use gnome,
+     it's not.  There's no good reason not to put them in /usr/share/icons or
+     /usr/share/pixmaps.
+  3. The only other thing the 'slackware-menus' package does is set up the 
+     symlinks for the *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications, and it's done
+     with them linked from /etc/openoffice.org2.2...  Since we don't want the
+     link to /etc at all, this is useless to us.  
+
+Be sure to look at the script for some optional things you can do when building 
+(disable the Java loader and add the Optimization Solver).