include LibreOffice by default

Scott scott.walsh at snet.net
Fri Dec 7 21:41:57 UTC 2012


Libre Office is great and useful but can always be installed later. That
means it's a "We don't care".

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 10:21 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > Kamil Paral (kparal at redhat.com) said:
> > > And what about the LiveCD? We don't have any comps problems there.
> > > I haven't
> > > seen any response. I think this is the correct place where
> > > questions like this
> > > should be decided, right?
> > 
> > If it's wanted,
> 
> I think that's going to be the biggest problem here. I talked to Matthias before and he pointed me to this mailing list. But it's pretty dead in here. At least "we don't care" response would help. Anyone?
> 
> > someone needs to do a test image and ensure it fits
> > and works -
> > just making the changes and hoping the nightly doesn't seem to be the
> > best way to do it.
> 
> So I did. The size went from 786 MB to 911 MB. So it jumped a lot, but there is still some space.
> 
> I booted the image and tested a basic functionality, everything works.
> 
> When modifying fedora-livecd-desktop.ks, it wasn't enough to just comment out "-libreoffice-*" line, it still wasn't installed. But if I added "@libreoffice" to the end of the package section, it worked. I guess the first unsuccessful attempt was caused by "-java-1.7.0-openjdk" line that I didn't comment out. I don't know, I'm not a kickstart expert, you'll know for sure.
> 
> Bill, what can be done next? Maybe we could ask on devel (or other) list for some interested people in order to bring a new blood to the Desktop SIG [1] and revive it a bit? That could improve the discussion.
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Desktop
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