Do we really need LibreOffice installed by default?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 15:40:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Of course, so the image is necessarily larger as a result.  But I
>> question whether the difference saved by eliminating LO would really
>> impact people's ability to download.  I'd expect someone who can't
>> download a 1.2GB image wouldn't have their problem solved by only
>> downloading a ~750-950MB image.
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> Downloading a smaller image is cheaper (if you pay per byte) and it's
> faster. I, for example, have to wait an hour and a half to download a
> workstation compose these days, some of the composes being 1.4GB.

Yeah but you probably download it more often than the average user
that just does it to install the os and not test composes etc.


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