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From: Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:38:00
Message-Id: CAHNvW1+jHQ9PZC7pJm_H3rTtmXYrMXdfdf8fB5tr27QYzUUFGg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? by Mick
1 On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote:
4 > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > > Paul Hartman wrote:
6 > > >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > > >>> I noticed this today:
8 > > >>>
9 > > >>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
10 > > >>> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
11 > > >>> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
12 > > >>> # Tomáš Chvátal<scarabeus@g.o> (27 Jul 2011)
13 > > >>> # Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days.
14 > > >>> # app-office/openoffice -> app-office/libreoffice
15 > > >>> # app-office/openoffice-bin -> app-office/libreoffice-bin
16 > > >>> # app-text/wpd2sxw -> app-text/wpd2odt
17 > > >>>
18 > > >>>> =app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1
19 > > >>>
20 > > >>> Does this mean that libreoffice is going to replace OOo in the tree?
21 > > >>
22 > > >> Looks like it. It has already replaced it on all my computers.
23 > > >>
24 > > >> Gentoo's OpenOffice has included the go-oo patches for a long time
25 > > >> anyway, which were the big thing changed about LibreOffice (those
26 > > >> patches included in mainline), and using the two I can honestly say
27 > > >> there's really no difference as far as I can tell, aside from the
28 > > >> splash screen. Somebody posted about some Sun templates a while
29 > > >> back... maybe something proprietary like that is changed, but
30 > > >> OpenTemplate.org is meant to replace those anyway.
31 > > >>
32 > > >> I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :)
33 > > >
34 > > > OK. I just wanted to make sure I was reading that right. I guess
35 > > > Openoffice is a thing of the past now.
36 > > >
37 > > > Question, is libreoffice available on winders too? I need to put that
38 > on
39 > > > my bro's rig to if it is. My bro still uses winders. I been waiting
40 > on
41 > > > him to get up some cash to build a new rig with Gentoo on it. ;-)
42 > >
43 > > Yep, I use it on my Windows 7 machine at work, everything is fine.
44 > > Also available for Macintosh users (or Mac as they seem to call it
45 > > these days).
46 >
47 > All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge
48 > and
49 > on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
50 > --
51 > Regards,
52 > Mick
53 >
54 Yes,
55 but give it a credit. This big monster of code, compiles without a hitch.
56
57 KFir