Xubuntu and OOo

[Sasha Tsykin]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:16:53 +1100
>Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Is there some reason why OpenOffice is not packaged as part of
>>Xubuntu. In my experience, it is a much more capable office suite
>>that the combination of abiword, gnumeric, and a few other gnome
>>programs.
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>I'd guess that it is disk space.  It's hard to include everything on
>one disk, especially something as large as OOo.  Of course, it /is/
>right there in the repositories, so download to your heart's content!
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>Cybe R. Wizard
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Clearly I can download it, but the point of Xubuntu is that it be very 
lightweight, so maybe there is some reason not to use OpenOffice related 
to that. I don't know. I don't think that it could be an issue of space 
because it fits on both the Kubuntu and Ubuntu install cd's.