On 8 May 2005 at 13:13, Dan Lewis wrote:
> On Sunday 08 May 2005 07:48 am, Horst Gerbig wrote:
> > AFAIK this used to be possible with an OOo custom installation. If
> >
> > Mixu Lauronen a �crit :
> > > I've been thinking about a possibility to load single OOo
> > > applications instead of the whole package. Some people only need a
> > > Word Processor. Many never use Draw or Math. I think it should be
> > > possible to select which products to download/install. What do you
> > > think, folks?
> >
> The components of OOo are NOT single applications. The vast
> majority of OOo consists of the core components. All of the parts of
> OOo (Writer, Draw, Calc, Impress, Math, etc.) use the part or all of
> these core components. In other words, OOo is an integrated package not a
> set of products. So, a download/install of one part would require most of
> the entire package. For example, the Linux RPM files for version 2.0 beta.
> The core RPM's make up about 90% of the total size of the downloaded
> package.
Gotta agree here. While Horst is correct, you can select to NOT install
certain parts of the OOo package, you are still installing quite a bit more
than just say the Writer portion. If users want a simple, stand-alone
product, they are better off going with something like AbiWord (comes with
almost every flavor of *nix and has a Windows version available). Same
holds true for the other components in OOo - there are spreadsheet
programs, drawing programs, database components, etc. to suit almost every
need and OS. OOo is an office suite and thus requires and installs a base
package that contains functions that link the suite programs together and
make the suite program functionality available to the other suite programs.
Same holds true for MS Office. Even when you purchase the individual MSO
programs, you are installing more than just a word processor or spreadsheet
program because they are all tied to each other as an office suite.
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