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On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote: |
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> On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: |
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> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: |
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> >> For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke |
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> >> dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. |
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> >> |
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> >> The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 |
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> > I have bison-2.5, but am using libreoffice-bin which seems fine. |
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> Yes, that would be expected because bison is needed only at compile time, |
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> not at run time. |
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> I would be using libreoffice-bin too, except for a ridiculous change made |
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> about a year ago in the way openoffice charts are scaled on the y-axis. |
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> I complained bitterly on the openoffice 'chart' mail list, only to discover |
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> that openoffice changed its perfectly good scaling algorithm to ape a change |
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> made in M$ Office! |
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> Nobody at openoffice.org would consider reverting that ridiculous mee-too |
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> change, so I've been editing the open(libre)office source code to remove it |
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> myself before compiling it. I was very disappointed to find a major open- |
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> source project following M$ around like a hungry puppy :( |
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It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast, light, standalone |
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programs to deal with the formats of word, excel, powerpoint, etc but |
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if we did odds are most people would shun them for a big, bloaty |
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office suite anyway. Personally, I'd love it if I could open and edit |
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those office formats in vim... |
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caveat utilitor |
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