[arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

[Hector Martinez-Seara]

+1 I see common sense in arch!! :)

On 8 March 2011 07:04, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> You should know replacing Oracle OpenOffice also does the accessibility
> crowd that uses orca a huge favor too.  The Libri OpenOffice packages work
> better with Orca in several versions and don't crash because orca is
> running on the systems.On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
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>> 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.
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