Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice
Pavel Alexeev
forum at hubbitus.com.ru
Mon Feb 4 08:17:25 UTC 2013
04.02.2013 10:47, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> = Features/ApacheOpenOffice =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice
>>
>> Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti <pescetti at apache.org>
>>
>> Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora.
> A big -1 to this feature, and in fact I'd urge FESCo to veto that package
> outright (or if it somehow already made it into Fedora, to get it blocked in
> Koji and Obsoleted by libreoffice ASAP).
>
> Rationale:
> * What benefit does this package have over LibreOffice, to justify carrying
> 2 packages doing essentially the same thing?
> * OpenOffice is a huge package and a big strain on our build system (Koji);
> IMHO, having 2 versions of it would be a gigantic waste of resources.
> * LibreOffice is clearly the community version to be preferred:
> - All major distros support it.
> - Red Hat people work on it.
> - AFAIK, it has more features.
Does anyone have or known real table of differences of futures? I think
it may be important see there.
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