Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 13:27:52 UTC 2013


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> On 01/30/2013 07:44 AM, 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.
> > 
> > == Detailed description == Apache OpenOffice (formerly
> > OpenOffice.org) is the the leading free and open- source office
> > software suite.
> > 
> > Donated by Oracle to the Apache Software Foundation in 2011, it is
> > now developed and supported by a thriving community; it graduated
> > from the Apache Incubator in October 2012 and it is now an Apache
> > Top-Level Project.
> > 
> > Two new versions, 3.4.0 and 3.4.1, were released in the last 8
> > months and a major update, 4.0, is in the works and scheduled for
> > April 2012. Versions 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 totalled 35 million downloads
> > so far (not counting mirrors).
> > 
> > To be clear, this proposal is about merely adding Apache
> > OpenOffice: it doesn't affect existing office suites included in
> > Fedora and it doesn't require that Apache OpenOffice is made the
> > default office suite in Fedora.
> 
> Given that OpenOffice and LibreOffice share a common history (and not
> that far back), are there going to be any efforts made to allow them
> to be parallel-installable on the system, or will they be
> fully-fledged Conflicts: packages?

As stated in Feature page - it's definitely not going to be solved by
conflicting these two packages, the problem seems to be soffice alias
only, see the Scope section.

Jaroslav

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