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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:16:28
Message-Id: j11ald$8n9$2@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? by BRM
1 On 2011-07-29, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >>From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
3 >>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
4 >>Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM
5 >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?
6 >>
7 >>On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >>> I noticed this today:
9 >>>
10 >>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
11 >>> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
12 >>> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
13 >>> # Tom???? Chv??tal <scarabeus@g.o> (27 Jul 2011)
14 >>> # Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days.
15 >>> # app-office/openoffice -> app-office/libreoffice
16 >>> # app-office/openoffice-bin -> app-office/libreoffice-bin
17 >>> # app-text/wpd2sxw -> app-text/wpd2odt
18 >>>>=app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1
19 >>>
20 >>>
21 >>> Does this mean that libreoffice is going to replace OOo in the tree?
22 >>
23 >>Looks like it. It has already replaced it on all my computers.
24 >>
25 >>Gentoo's OpenOffice has included the go-oo patches for a long time
26 >>anyway, which were the big thing changed about LibreOffice
27
28 [...]
29
30 >>I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :)
31 >
32 > I wouldn't. While LibreOffice may have some advances at the moment,
33 > I'm still interested in following main-line OOo - now being setting
34 > under Apache.
35
36 So you don't use the gentoo OOo ebuilds? AFAICT, they're a lot closer
37 to being libreoffice than to being mainline OOo.
38
39 > Please do not force us to convert from OO to LO.
40
41 If you use the gentoo ebuilds, then you mostly already have.
42
43 Gentoo OOo = OOo + Go-Oo
44
45 LibreOffice = OOo + Go-Oo
46
47 > I have no problem with separate installs for each, but there will be
48 > those (like me) that want the official OO installs.
49
50 But, what you get using the Gentoo ebuilds isn't the official OOo
51 install. If you're running official OOo, then youre not using the
52 Gentoo ebuilds, so why do you care what those ebuilds produce?
53
54 One of the things I like about LibreOffice is the reduced
55 dependancies. Even with the gnome USE flag turned off, OOo pulls in
56 some big gnome dependancies that I don't want. WTF does an office
57 suite need libgweather?
58
59 --
60 Grant

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