Remove OO Draw from the default install

[Chris Cheney]

openoffice.org-presentation (Impress) currently depends on it. Assuming
we would be keeping that on the CD it would need to be tested to see if
the libraries in the draw package are needed by Impress to function,
which I am pretty certain they are needed. In that case we would have to
split them out into a separate package that stays on the cd for Impress,
but that would make the space gained by removal very small. It could
still be done if the overall effect is that we don't want users seeing
the OpenOffice.org Draw icon in the menu.

Also note that OpenOffice.org is a very monolithic office suite and the
individual 'App' launchers really all just call the same code
(soffice.bin). Each 'App' is just a particular view into that program
and each 'App' depends on functionality of the other 'App's so splitting
the packaging up to reduce install size has often lead to weird
breakage. Its not all linkage via libraries linked at build time, there
is code that is dlopened and other code that is called via a registry of
sorts. So its nearly impossible to be competely certain which parts of
the code are able to safely split into other packages that aren't
installed by default which has led to numerous prior bugs in the various
distributions that have attempted to do so.

Chris

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:27 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I forgot to mention this at the session for default app selection but
> can we remove Open Office Draw from the default ubuntu install? The
> reasons are quite obvious it just isnt any good and I dont think any of
> the regular users actually use it. 
> 
> --fagan