*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 93546 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93546
No, it is not. #93546 is mostly concerned with Thunderbird, even if the
first mention of Ubuntu's OpenOffice (now LibreOffice) missing LDAP
access capabilities in its Base is in that bug report (back in 2002
!!!).
I cannot fathom why Ubuntu insists on removing LDAP access capabilities
from Base. And persists beyond the switch to LibreOffice. I suppose
that after the years people who need this just install straight from
OpenOffice.org, but I wouldn't say that it's a good thing.
Access to LDAP as a "database" format can be very handy for things like
reporting or mailings. In enterprise settings, much Customer (and
internal organization) information resides in LDAP databases.
If space is lacking on the distribution CD: (a) it probably would make
more sense to omit "Unix ODBC" than omitting LDAP; and (b) it certainly
would make sense to have a Ubuntu package providing that access rather
than forcing to use the OOo package.
Note there already *is* some LDAP access in the Ubuntu/LibreOpenOffice,
as apparently loading profiles through LDAP access is important enough
to warrant a kind word in Synaptic (and a package); but that stops short
of allowing LDAP databases as a Base format.
Puzzling. This is a GRREAT set of products and, on balance, a very
minor subject.
Thanks!
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Title:
using a LDAP database source
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