On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote: > On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: > > >> For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke > >> dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. > >> > >> The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 > > > I have bison-2.5, but am using libreoffice-bin which seems fine. > > Yes, that would be expected because bison is needed only at compile time, > not at run time. > > I would be using libreoffice-bin too, except for a ridiculous change made > about a year ago in the way openoffice charts are scaled on the y-axis. > > I complained bitterly on the openoffice 'chart' mail list, only to discover > that openoffice changed its perfectly good scaling algorithm to ape a change > made in M$ Office! > > Nobody at openoffice.org would consider reverting that ridiculous mee-too > change, so I've been editing the open(libre)office source code to remove it > myself before compiling it. I was very disappointed to find a major open- > source project following M$ around like a hungry puppy :(
It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast, light, standalone programs to deal with the formats of word, excel, powerpoint, etc but if we did odds are most people would shun them for a big, bloaty office suite anyway. Personally, I'd love it if I could open and edit those office formats in vim... -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
