Now what's this with OpenOffice.org?

Jelle de Jong jelledejong at powercraft.nl
Wed Apr 4 17:44:56 UTC 2007


> On 04/04/07, *Jani Monoses* <jani.monoses at gmail.com
> <mailto:jani.monoses at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     jjacksoniv at fluxbuntu.org <mailto:jjacksoniv at fluxbuntu.org> wrote:
>     > Vincent,
>     >
>     > The reason is the language-support-* locale packages and their
>     chain of
>     > dependencies.
>     >
>     > Example:
>     >
>     > http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/translations/language-support-en
>     >
>     > language-support-en dependency: openoffice.org-help-en-us
>     > http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/doc/openoffice.org-help-en-us
>     >
>     > language-support-en dependency: openoffice.org-l10n-en-us
>     > http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/editors/openoffice.org-l10n-en-us
> 
>     On the alternate CD there's openoffice and the gtk skin
>     http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily/20070402/feisty-alternate-i386.list
> 
>     On the LiveCD , no OO at all
>     http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/20070403/feisty-desktop-i386.manifest
> 
> 
> But if OpenOffice.org is pulled automatically, wouldn't it be better to
> have openoffice.org-gtk installed already?

I had already pointed out this problem in my debug reports. I strongly
believe that if we install openoffice by default it should use
openoffice.org-gtk bindings. Without it looks terrible and it will
deliver some bad reviews points.

Kind regards,

Jelle




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