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> From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? |
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> On 2011-07-29, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> |
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>>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>>> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM |
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>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? |
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>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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>>>> I noticed this today: |
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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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>>>> # Tom???? Chv??tal <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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>>>>> =app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1 |
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>>>> Does this mean that libreoffice is going to replace OOo in the |
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> tree? |
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>>> Looks like it. It has already replaced it on all my computers. |
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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 |
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>>> I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :) |
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>> I wouldn't. While LibreOffice may have some advances at the moment, |
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>> I'm still interested in following main-line OOo - now being setting |
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>> under Apache. |
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> So you don't use the gentoo OOo ebuilds? AFAICT, they're a lot closer |
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> to being libreoffice than to being mainline OOo. |
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>> Please do not force us to convert from OO to LO. |
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> If you use the gentoo ebuilds, then you mostly already have. |
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> Gentoo OOo = OOo + Go-Oo |
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> LibreOffice = OOo + Go-Oo |
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There's other stuff in LibreOffice too. But I'd still much rather be using OOo than LibreOffice. |
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And I'd rather drop the GO-OOo patches, but I don't think there's an option for that in emerge. |
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>> I have no problem with separate installs for each, but there will be |
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>> those (like me) that want the official OO installs. |
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> But, what you get using the Gentoo ebuilds isn't the official OOo |
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> install. If you're running official OOo, then youre not using the |
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> Gentoo ebuilds, so why do you care what those ebuilds produce? |
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> One of the things I like about LibreOffice is the reduced |
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> dependancies. Even with the gnome USE flag turned off, OOo pulls in |
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> some big gnome dependancies that I don't want. WTF does an office |
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> suite need libgweather? |
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And I'm sure the Apache OO guys will fix that in due time as well. |
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All I'm saying is that I want to stick with the Apache OOo in the long run, not LibreOffice. |
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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. |
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Ben |
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