[gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-08-01, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:

>>>> I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :)
>>>
>>>  I wouldn't. While LibreOffice may have some advances at the moment,
>>>  I'm still interested in following main-line OOo - now being setting
>>>  under Apache.
>>
>> So you don't use the gentoo OOo ebuilds?? AFAICT, they're a lot closer
>> to being libreoffice than to being mainline OOo.
>>
>>>  Please do not force us to convert from OO to LO.
>>
>> If you use the gentoo ebuilds, then you mostly already have.
>> Gentoo OOo? = OOo + Go-Oo
>> LibreOffice = OOo + Go-Oo
>
> There's other stuff in LibreOffice too. But I'd still much rather be
> using OOo than LibreOffice.
>
> And I'd rather drop the GO-OOo patches, but I don't think there's an
> option for that in emerge.

Not that I've noticed.

>>> I have no problem with separate installs for each, but there will be
>>> those (like me) that want the official OO installs.
>>
>> But, what you get using the Gentoo ebuilds isn't the official OOo
>> install. If you're running official OOo, then youre not using the
>> Gentoo ebuilds, so why do you care what those ebuilds produce?
>>
>> One of the things I like about LibreOffice is the reduced
>> dependancies. Even with the gnome USE flag turned off, OOo pulls in
>> some big gnome dependancies that I don't want.? WTF does an office
>> suite need libgweather?
>
> And I'm sure the Apache OO guys will fix that in due time as well.
>
> All I'm saying is that I want to stick with the Apache OOo in the
> long run, not LibreOffice.

And what I'm saying is that if you're using the Gentoo ebuilds, you
abandoned official OOo a long time ago and are already a ways down the
road that LO is taking.

If you want to stick with Apache OOo, that's cool.

However, the old OOo ebuilds were a long ways from the official branch
of OOo before LO came along. So, for people who want to stick with
Apache OOo, it doesn't matter that the old OOo ebuilds are being
dropped.

> Users can switch to the LibreOffice install if they desire, but
> there's no reason for force those that want to continue with OOo to
> move over.

I'm not saying they should be forced to, but it seems like they're
fooling themselves if they think that the old Gentoo OOo ebuilds were
closer to "official OOo" than to LO.  That's probably why the old OOo
ebuilds are being dropped -- they're mostly redundant now that LO has
come along and incorporated GoOo patches.

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