[arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at 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.