----- Original Message ----- > From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? > On 2011-07-29, BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> >>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >>> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM >>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>>> I noticed this today: >>>> >>>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >>>> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) >>>> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >>>> # Tom???? Chv??tal <scarab...@gentoo.org> (27 Jul 2011) >>>> # Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days. >>>> # app-office/openoffice -> app-office/libreoffice >>>> # app-office/openoffice-bin -> app-office/libreoffice-bin >>>> # app-text/wpd2sxw -> app-text/wpd2odt >>>>> =app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1 >>>> >>>> >>>> Does this mean that libreoffice is going to replace OOo in the > tree? >>> >>> Looks like it. It has already replaced it on all my computers. >>> >>> Gentoo's OpenOffice has included the go-oo patches for a long time >>> anyway, which were the big thing changed about LibreOffice > > [...] > >>> I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :) >> >> I wouldn't. While LibreOffice may have some advances at the moment, >> I'm still interested in following main-line OOo - now being setting >> under Apache. > > So you don't use the gentoo OOo ebuilds? AFAICT, they're a lot closer > to being libreoffice than to being mainline OOo. > >> Please do not force us to convert from OO to LO. > > If you use the gentoo ebuilds, then you mostly already have. > Gentoo OOo = OOo + Go-Oo > LibreOffice = OOo + Go-Oo
There's other stuff in LibreOffice too. But I'd still much rather be using OOo than LibreOffice. And I'd rather drop the GO-OOo patches, but I don't think there's an option for that in emerge. >> I have no problem with separate installs for each, but there will be >> those (like me) that want the official OO installs. > > But, what you get using the Gentoo ebuilds isn't the official OOo > install. If you're running official OOo, then youre not using the > Gentoo ebuilds, so why do you care what those ebuilds produce? > > One of the things I like about LibreOffice is the reduced > dependancies. Even with the gnome USE flag turned off, OOo pulls in > some big gnome dependancies that I don't want. WTF does an office > suite need libgweather? And I'm sure the Apache OO guys will fix that in due time as well. All I'm saying is that I want to stick with the Apache OOo in the long run, not LibreOffice. Users can switch to the LibreOffice install if they desire, but there's no reason for force those that want to continue with OOo to move over. Ben
