[arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-08-03 23:31:51 +0200:
> 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

It's not exactly easy to figure out what upstream uses in this case. The
only hint I found so far is the gnome_list.txt in the PKGBUILD. I don't
know whether the upstream name is very significant in this case.