On 9/25/2018 6:39 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote:
On 2018-09-24 15:09 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
AbiWord-3.0.2
Gnumeric-1.12.43
^ I suggest removing Libreoffice instead. It's a hog, and I can't honestly see
anyone spending 45+ SBU building a
package that downloads its own internal versions anyway. I'm also quite partial
to Abiword and Gnumeric though,
this is just my (biased) opinion. I've never seen it work right once.
Then force everyone to use LaTeX beamer for presentation, and open M$
Office files in a VM?
As Douglas said, libreoffice uses internal copies of lots of pkgs. You
can simply download the prebuilt binaries and install them in /opt. I
sure did for quite some time. It was simply not worth 6 hours build
(neither was chromium, which is why I just download google-chrome - I
already sold my soul so I have no concerns about privacy in that area!)
Balsa-2.5.6
^ And force everyone to use Thunderbird instead? At least in my case,
Thunderbird is highly unstable for a mailbox
with over 13,000 messages saved. Balsa and Evolution are the only two clients
that have ever worked properly.
Sure, I maintain GNOME - but I'd rather not have to put Evolution on my
workstation whenever my new one that I
ordered comes in.
Agree. Thunderbird destoryed many mails when I was using Ubuntu. So
I've never built it since I switched to (B)LFS.
feh-2.27.1
FontForge-20170731
Pidgin-2.13.0
Transmission-2.94
^ Why are we going to remove this? We have no replacement for a P2P client.
Pidgin is understandable (from a
maintenance point of view - I'm still going to end up installing it anyway
because I have to use it to communicate
with my college's Jabber system).
xarchiver-0.5.4
^ This one is relatively low maintenance, but if you want to remove it, go
ahead. I'll just move my workstation to
Plasma instead of XFCE, as I'd prefer to stay away from File-Roller if I can.
Transcode-1.1.7
Audacious-3.10
^ Any particular reason why? This is a nice package to have around for us
audiophiles.
Enscript-1.6.6
MuPDF-1.13.0
^ What do you suggest to replace it? I doubt everyone wants to use Evince or
Okular (and Okular has another
downdraw - it uses JS in PDF files, increasing vulnerability surface [and there
is still one we haven't even
bothered trying to fix!]). In addition, this is used in cups-filters.
paps-0.6.8
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