Do we really need LibreOffice installed by default?

[Caolán McNamara]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 09:17 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 09:13 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > FWIW it should be possible to install writer, calc, impress without
> > installing the database "base" piece, which is the one that sucks in
> > the
> > vast java stack via the pentaho-reporting-flow-engine
> 
> We already do not install Base. It's not a tool that's useful or
> interesting to most users. I think it showed up in F20 during the update
> with the dep change that pulled in chainsaw etc. (which was reverted
> long ago).

So, why was there so much discussion about java dependencies earlier in
this thread ? Are we stilling pulling in java stuff through some other
route right now in F21?

C.