On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:07:36PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> Would an option be to just retire abiword? Its slowly gotten less useful
> in most cases because it doesn't handle formats near as well as it once
> did (even .odt ... going from libreoffice to abiword is ... well,
> painful) and if upstream isn't contuning development on it is there much
> motivation to keep it alive? (I'm not entirely familiar with its user
> base so my suggestion might be heavily greated with "OMG NOES!" replies
> and if that's the case then by all means keep the train moving forward
> ... I just hate to unnessecary work done.)

I'm very certain that it's because libreoffice-writer (and more
importantly, what it pulls in) is much much larger than abiword, and
live CD ISOs are small.

> Also, I think with the new compression on the Live images all the spins
> have the spare space for LibreOffice.

I'd love to see this actually happen. ;)

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