Do we really need LibreOffice installed by default?

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 16, 2014, at 3:47 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A few things worth considering:
>>> 
>>> - Java is quite popular among the Workstation target audience (between web
>>> and mobile development), so installing it by default may not be such a bad
>>> idea.
>>> 
>>> - Without Libreoffice there's no support for .doc or even RTF documents in
>>> the default install. This is something all operating systems currently
>>> support (Windows, OS X and all major Linux distributions). While I'm in
>>> favor of offering a lean selection of apps now that Software is a great and
>>> usable tool, I believe that an OS should support viewing all common MIME
>>> types out of the box.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Evandr
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Having a Java runtime environment doesn't help you with mobile development,
>> you'd have to install Eclipse as well - and that pull in Java anyway. I also
>> don't think a technology being "popular" is a good reason to include it by
>> default, otherwise we'd include ruby on rails, django, docker, and PHP by
>> default.
>> 
>> AFAIK, Microsoft Windows does not come with a .doc viewer by default.
> 
> It does. Its called "WordPad".

On OS X it's TextEdit which reads Word doc/docx/xml, .rtf, and .odf. There's intrinsic value having at least a viewer for common formats. If LibreOffice gets us that capability, keep it installed by default.


Chris Murphy