Hi, On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:36:35AM -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > it ships own copies of dozens of standard 3rd-party packages, > > "standard" from the viewpoint of up-to-date Linux distros, that is. Don't > forget that LibreOffice is supposed to run also on not-so-up-to-date Linux > installations. (As far as I know, the generic Linux build of LibreOffice is, > or am I confusing with go-oo times?)
Nah, there's also various internal libs so old that they were even outdated years ago (zlib for example) > And then there is Windows. Which we can ignore for not requring external libs on Linux :) > In general, isn't a LibreOffice purpose-built for some modern Linux distro > *already* using the system copies of these libraries, not its own copies? If it's possible and the distro cares, yes. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
