Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

[Paul Hartman]

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

Yep, I use it on my Windows 7 machine at work, everything is fine.
Also available for Macintosh users (or Mac as they seem to call it
these days).