[arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

[Allan McRae]

On 04/08/11 00:17, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Auguste Pop's message of 2011-08-03 15:37:38 +0200:
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Philipp Überbacher
>> <hollunder at lavabit.com>  wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Auguste Pop's message of 2011-08-03 15:12:21 +0200:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Mauro Santos<registo.mailling at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> On 03-08-2011 07:41, Hector Martinez-Seara wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I'm aware that recently there has been some changes in libreoffice
>>>>>> package. The problem is that yesterday I updated my system and
>>>>>> surprisingly only libreoffice-common was updated. By that I mean that
>>>>>> I mean that not base, writer, impress... were available after the
>>>>>> update, they dissapered. Moreover, if I make "pacman -S libreoffice"
>>>>>> only  "libreoffice-common" is targeted and there is no traces of
>>>>>> libreoffice-calc,  libreoffice-base,  libreoffice-draw.... The thing
>>>>>> is that there seems to be a container called libreoffice which it is
>>>>>> suppose to contain all this basic packages but in my case only
>>>>>> installs "libreoffice-common". What I'm doing wrong? I hope it is not
>>>>>> expected that we install one by one the components we want.
>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>> Hector
>>>>>
>>>>> My only (small) gripe is that libreoffice-gnome maybe should be called
>>>>> libreoffice-gtk.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a user of xfce I was slightly puzzled but the naming saying gnome as
>>>>> it sort of implies that it is specific to gnome, however the description
>>>>> clarifies that it applies to any gtk dependent DE. Maybe the naming
>>>>> should be general and the description should state gnome,xfce and
>>>>> anything else gtk dependent that is officially supported by arch.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mauro Santos
>>>>>
>>>> and libreoffice-kde4 should be libreoffice-qt.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about this, it pulls in at least phonon, which is kde
>>> specific.
>>>
>>>
>> oh, i didn't install that. that was a blind guess. :-P
>>
>> best regards,
>
> I didn't go through with it either but I had a look at what it would
> pull. libreoffice-gnome pulls nothing on my system, no gconf, no other
> gnome dependencies. libreoffice-kde pulls phonon and a bunch of other
> kde dependencies.
>
> So I'd suggest:
> libreoffice-gnome ->  libreoffice-gtk (version?)
> libreoffice-kde4 (leave it)
>
> It's not consistent but it reflects reality.
>

I'm fairly sure these are just following upstream naming so I doubt they 
will change.

Allan