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On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> I noticed this today: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: |
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> >>> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) |
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> >>> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: |
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> >>> # Tomáš Chvátal<scarabeus@g.o> (27 Jul 2011) |
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> >>> # Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days. |
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> >>> # app-office/openoffice -> app-office/libreoffice |
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> >>> # app-office/openoffice-bin -> app-office/libreoffice-bin |
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> >>> # app-text/wpd2sxw -> app-text/wpd2odt |
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> >>> |
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> >>>> =app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1 |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Does this mean that libreoffice is going to replace OOo in the tree? |
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> >> |
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> >> Looks like it. It has already replaced it on all my computers. |
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> >> |
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> >> Gentoo's OpenOffice has included the go-oo patches for a long time |
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> >> anyway, which were the big thing changed about LibreOffice (those |
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> >> patches included in mainline), and using the two I can honestly say |
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> >> there's really no difference as far as I can tell, aside from the |
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> >> splash screen. Somebody posted about some Sun templates a while |
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> >> back... maybe something proprietary like that is changed, but |
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> >> OpenTemplate.org is meant to replace those anyway. |
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> >> |
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> >> I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :) |
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> > |
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> > OK. I just wanted to make sure I was reading that right. I guess |
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> > Openoffice is a thing of the past now. |
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> > |
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> > Question, is libreoffice available on winders too? I need to put that on |
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> > my bro's rig to if it is. My bro still uses winders. I been waiting on |
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> > him to get up some cash to build a new rig with Gentoo on it. ;-) |
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> |
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> Yep, I use it on my Windows 7 machine at work, everything is fine. |
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> Also available for Macintosh users (or Mac as they seem to call it |
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> these days). |
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All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and |
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on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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