Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:15:43AM +0400, Pavel Alexeev wrote:
> > 01.02.2013 00:17, drago01 wrote:
> >
> >     On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Williamson <
> awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >         On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:20 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote:
> >
> >
> >             I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be
> dominant
> >             and you can't provide both of them on a live image for
> example.
> >             LibreOffice was introduced to our live images and we hit
> target 1GB,
> >             do you really think it could be useful having a larger image
> just
> >             because you want to provide both of the office suites?
> >
> >         The proposal explicitly says that it doesn't envisage including
> OO on
> >         any images or in any default install configurations, simply
> adding it as
> >         an option in the package repositories.
> >
> >     Which doesn't really need a FESCo approval ... just a package review.
> >
> > Meantime there one sentence which optionally require changes in
> LibreOffice
> > too: " The /usr/bin/soffice alias is still a problem since (in the Fedora
> > packages) it would conflict between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice:
> it is
> > recommended to fix it in the LibreOffice packages too, at least using the
> > Alternatives system."
> >
> > I think it should be approved first if it really required.
>
> alternatives is the wrong technology for end user facing applications.
> Why can't our apache openoffice package rename /usr/bin/soffice?
>
> -Toshio
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Why not LibreOffice? It doesn't make a lot of sense to retain the soffice
binary name for LibreOffice anyway. Besides, I think LibreOffice would be
more amenable to a permanent binary name change than Apache OpenOffice.
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