Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 09:34 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote:
> 
> 
> 2013/2/1 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>
>          
>         Yes, defaults needs to be sensible and usable and for many
>         people
>         that's what they end up with. I'm not saying we should go and
>         have AOO
>         installed by default, but available in repos in a state that
>         does not
>         conflict with LO (and other office suites *in official
>         repos*) ;-) Think
>         about sysadmins, multi-user systems, ... Seeing a bug report
>         saying "My
>         LO Writer segfaults with this error while AOO is installed"
>         isn't
>         exactly helpful, but not having AOO isn't a solution. Hence I
>         say OK to
>         adding AOO, as long as it wont conflict with LO both as
>         package and in
>         runtime.
>         
>         Unlike pulseaudio (in the above linked thread), AOO is
>         end-user GUI application, not a
>         library/daemon/sound-server/whatever
>         used to get the wanted sound to your headphones (that by
>         design
>         interferes with anything else trying to do the same) ;-) By
>         adding AOO
>         we're not breaking some third app, we might break LO and
>         that's exactly
>         what I consider critical not to do. Is it doable? Are there
>         people
>         willing and able to do that? If yes, sure, let them.

> +1 Martin, that's the point.

No that's completely not the point:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/177803.html


Pierre