On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote:
LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle
OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos.
First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office packaging area and nobody stepped in.
Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds and their interest. They break the build against system libs every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation has given at its birth.
So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing to maintain them.
Any objections to add "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg?
-Andy +1
Solid and pragmatic suggestion.
just an fyi, openoffice itself is *huge* and now that it is going to be dropped to the aur, it will most likely lose all audience because of how long it takes to compile from source. + libreoffice is just a better version of openoffice imo, so there should really be no one that uses it.
yeah it's a great idea ... honestly, as critical as openoffice was when i needed it, i feel like it has barely changed/evolved in the many years i've used it. Oracle's decision to reject grandfathering a foundation and eject long-time members that vastly predating themselves pretty much !@$!$%$'s a guy right off! soooo libo/libreoffice/NOOo FTW! C Anthony