[ubuntu-studio-users] Libre Office for Ubuntu Studio

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 02.08.2013 12:31, schrieb Abhayadev S:
> i am also in the opinion of saving disk space.. 

And why do you? On any HD, that is big enough for even a humble
A/V-Production another 100-200 MB for an Officesuite, that may prove
handy sometimes is irrelevant.

> At times i am helpless that
> some of the tools could not be removed unless the entire Audio is not
> removed.. 

I was puzzeled also when I saw these messages some years ago. Do not
fear! The meta-packages like US-audio are not the real packages but only
lists of them. Removing a meta-package does *not* remove the software
installed by it.

> is that so or just i missed some other options?
> 
> Regards,
> Abhayadev S
> http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs
> 
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> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:
> 
>> I would remove Libre Office and install AbiWord. IMO it doesn't matter
>> what Office software is installed, it's easy to remove and/or install
>> other office software. Keep in mind that AbiWord is the default for
>> Xubuntu, so it's less work to make the distro. The smaller the DVD image
>> is, the faster we can download it. In the past I used Open Office, but I
>> switched to AbiWord, since Open/Libre Office is to bloated for my needs.
>> Regarding to the need of RAM and CPU resources it shouldn't make a
>> difference, since I guess nobody need to run it during an audio
>> production.
>>
>> IMO Nano-Basket, an editor for the much used KORG nanoKONTROL and
>> JSynthLib, an editor for several hardware synth, are more useful for
>> most of us, than heavy office software.
>>
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