Hi, :-) After I posted on the Gentoo devs list, there was this reply, which I'm posting here. I was wondering whether someone from the LibreOffice devs would like to jump in and respond? (I posted this follow-up to both lists.)
To sign up for the Gentoo devs list: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org To sign-up for the LibO devs list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice To view this message entirely: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6d65d86d8ff498eedb95435c35fc4fad.xml On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:13, Stuart Longland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:40:03PM +0800, David Nelson wrote: >> A number of Linux distributions have announced their intention to ship >> LibreOffice with their future releases. We know that they frequently >> do re-branding work to integrate their chosen office suite in lines >> with their project's thinking. >> >> So we are keen to involve you in our project branding and development, >> so that we ship releases that better fit your needs. > > Do we even brand OpenOffice? I can't spot the difference between the > self-built OpenOffice.org binary I have, and the official Sun binary I > had previously. > > My concern with LibreOffice would be more to do with compiling it... > it'd be a nice package to have on the Yeeloong, but AFAIK it needs > Java..? Something I've been trying to bootstrap unsuccessfully for the > best part of two years now. (gcj-jdk is a long way from usable, and > there's a chicken-egg issue with icedtea6.) It also needs _lots_ of RAM > and disk space ... not a plentiful resource on MIPS. HTH. David Nelson