Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-14 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Ondřej Kučera wrote: > Hello, > > On 7.3.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: > >LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > >OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > I have a small concern. I regula

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-14 Thread Ondřej Kučera
Hello, On 7.3.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. I have a small concern. I regularly need to do a batch conversion of ODS files to CSV. For a long time I've

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 01:33 +0100, Linas wrote: > Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > Dedicated to the relatively-closed and more-constrained version of whats > > in the repos. Sure =) > > > > The distros have jumped fast, but I'm wondering about the Windows users > > of openoffice, seems to me none of them would

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Dedicated to the relatively-closed and more-constrained version of whats > in the repos. Sure =) > > The distros have jumped fast, but I'm wondering about the Windows users > of openoffice, seems to me none of them would try libreoffice just > because its there (and frankly the p

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-10 Thread headmastersquall
On Mar 10, 2011 10:04am, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti wrote: I switched to LibreOffice as soon as it hit the repos and I don't miss a thing. Also, I don't think we should worry too much about users coming from Windows. Really, if they're here, they're not afraid of change. Drop it now!

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti
I switched to LibreOffice as soon as it hit the repos and I don't miss a thing. Also, I don't think we should worry too much about users coming from Windows. Really, if they're here, they're not afraid of change. Drop it now!

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-09 Thread Attila
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 02:01:25 -0500 (EST) Jude DaShiell wrote: > libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages > oracle-openoffice-unsupported. Debian at any rate has a playground > area Before doing this i suggest to name it: needless_sh**_for_non_latex_users_bought_from_the_dar

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-09 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 9 Mar 2011 03:29:18 -0500 (EST) schrieb Jude DaShiell : > So as long as the libriopenoffice is in (o) other packages having a > need for some flavor of openoffice depending on arch-linux > dependencies policy would take the official packages first. If > that's the case such naming convent

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
So as long as the libriopenoffice is in (o) other packages having a need for some flavor of openoffice depending on arch-linux dependencies policy would take the official packages first. If that's the case such naming conventions would be unnecessary.On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, ??? wrote: > 2011/3/9 J

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread 郑文辉
2011/3/9 Thomas Dziedzic : > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> For such a transition, I think it will be helpful for everybody using >> arch-linux to name aall libri-openoffice packages >> libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages >> oracle-openoffice-unsu

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread 郑文辉
2011/3/9 Jude DaShiell : > For such a transition, I think it will be helpful for everybody using > arch-linux to name aall libri-openoffice packages > libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages > oracle-openoffice-unsupported. Debian at any rate has a playground area > where uns

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > For such a transition, I think it will be helpful for everybody using > arch-linux to name aall libri-openoffice packages > libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages > oracle-openoffice-unsupported.  Debian at any rate has

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
For such a transition, I think it will be helpful for everybody using arch-linux to name aall libri-openoffice packages libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages oracle-openoffice-unsupported. Debian at any rate has a playground area where unsupported packages go within its

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 10:22 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > 2011/3/7 Ng Oon-Ee : > > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:00 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > >> just an fyi, > >> openoffice itself is *huge* and now that it is going to be dropped to > >> the aur, it will most likely lose all audience because of

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
2011/3/7 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:00 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >> just an fyi, >> openoffice itself is *huge* and now that it is going to be dropped to >> the aur, it will most likely lose all audience because of how long it >> takes to compile from source. + libreoffice is just a

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:00 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > just an fyi, > openoffice itself is *huge* and now that it is going to be dropped to > the aur, it will most likely lose all audience because of how long it > takes to compile from source. + libreoffice is just a better version > of openof

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-08 Thread Hector Martinez-Seara
+1 I see common sense in arch!! :) On 8 March 2011 07:04, Jude DaShiell wrote: > You should know replacing Oracle OpenOffice also does the accessibility > crowd that uses orca a huge favor too.  The Libri OpenOffice packages work > better with Orca in several versions and don't crash because orca

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
You should know replacing Oracle OpenOffice also does the accessibility crowd that uses orca a huge favor too. The Libri OpenOffice packages work better with Orca in several versions and don't crash because orca is running on the systems.On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07.03

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the > Office packaging area and nob

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >> On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: >>> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle >>> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages fro

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: >> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle >> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. >> >> First my time is limited. I've asked so many

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the > Office packaging area and nobody stepped

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Squall Lionheart wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: > >> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle >> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. >> >> First my time is limited. I've

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the > Office packaging area and n

[arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Andreas Radke
LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office packaging area and nobody stepped in. Then there's the poor distribution support Ora