Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 21:12:32 schrieb Grant Edwards:
> On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like
> > LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only
> > you. Don't force *them* to support every single printing system in the
> > planet earth;
>
> I wasn't complaining about lack of support for other printing systems.
> I was complaining about the lack of support for _no_ printing system.
> It seems dumb to make somebody without a printer install CUPs seems.

Agreed. It could be useful to have cups splitted into client and server 
ebuilds. Or to have a server-USE for it. I don't know, if this is possible at 
all or how much work this would be. ebuilds like LO could then depend on cups-
client or still work with server-disabled cups.

> > Because the Open Source community has limited resources. The
> > LibreOffice devs (or maybe the Gentoo ones) choose to support CUPS and
> > only CUPS, because it takes care of the most cases, not only yours.
>
> What about the lack of a CUPS install would make LibreOffice fail?
> Does LibreOffice depend on libraries provided by CUPS even if you
> don't want to print?
> As for cups being "huge", the standard install comprises over 500
> files. That's still huge in my book.

Afaict most of these files are related to the web-frontend.
And 500 files isn't that much.
See firefox for example:

~ $ equery s firefox
 * www-client/firefox-6.0
         Total files : 3801
         Total size  : 722.95 MiB

compared to another browser

~ $ equery s konqueror
 * kde-base/konqueror-4.7.0
         Total files : 255
         Total size  : 5.81 MiB

:)

Regards,
Michael