https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46267

--- Comment #3 from Emil Stenström <[email protected]> 2012-02-19 05:11:28 PST ---
I'm guessing here, but I believe most people have a simple goal in their head: 
"I need a free version of [Word|Excel|Powerpoint]". The software that best
answers that question, with the least effort, will get all the users.

File size is one of the things that adds effort, and something that should be 
taken very seriously. Smaller file-size leads to more users. This is true not
just for Windows users, but for ALL users.

Here's who I would do it:

1) Build a small stub installer, which lets the user choose which of the three 
things they need. Could be very similar to:
http://www.libreoffice.org/features/screenshot/

2) When user presses "Install" in the bottom right corner just the selected 
packages are downloaded, which should be way below 200 Mb for most users.

3) If a user tries to trigger a command that's not installed (e.g. Draw), pop 
up the same installation window and let the user add Draw to their installed
program.

This would not mean building a whole package manager, just the simplest 
possible window to make the download smaller. I definitely think this would be 
worth
the effort.

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