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