On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Domen Kožar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Domen Kožar <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've updated libreoffice to latest stable (released few days ago). >> >> Thanks for this! >> libreoffice probably isn't the easiest package to maintain :) > > > Don't mention all the fun :) > >> >> >> > There are two caveats though: >> > >> > - Due to help being translated to so many packages total size when >> > unpacked >> > is 2.1G (help is 1.4G). Any objections for making help optional? >> >> Do we keep English help? >> And an option to install all others? >> I don't think we need more fine grained selections. >> >> This might be a nice target for multiple-outputs though. >> That way, the core (with english help) is shared, meaning people who >> select the all-languages option won't need to build everything from >> scratch if hydra provides both outputs. > > > We could build only English help for now and have that as parameter. When > multiple-outputs branch is merged, we can make the next step :)
That branch is for splitting huge parts of the stdenv and other big packages. The multiple-outputs nix functionality itself has been available for some time and is already being used by some packages (including mesa). So no need to wait for multiple-outputs to merge. > >> >> >> > >> > - libreoffice has quite some external dependencies and the way we build >> > them now is messy (we just fetch all of them inside and run make), there >> > is >> > space for improvements >> > >> > Domen >> > _______________________________________________ >> > nix-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >> And just curious... >> Why upgrade to 4.0, while 4.1 is out? >> I would expect skipping a version would save some work, but maybe going >> step-by-step it's easier to follow dependency/build-system changes. > > > 4.1 is still considered somewhat not final (from libreoffice.org: This > version of LibreOffice is prepared with care and presented with pride by the > LibreOffice community. PLEASE NOTE that, since this is the very second > version in the series, make sure to read the release notes (under "Handy > resources").). > > I'd stick to using stable releases, but we could have a "libreoffice_latest" > expression in nixpkgs for testing. > Only if that doesn't take twice your time. Honestly, I never missed anything using 3.6, it's not that office tools are on an invention-spree :P _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
