On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> I noticed this today: >>> >>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >>> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) >>> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >>> # Tomáš Chvátal<scarab...@gentoo.org> (27 Jul 2011) >>> # Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days. >>> # app-office/openoffice -> app-office/libreoffice >>> # app-office/openoffice-bin -> app-office/libreoffice-bin >>> # app-text/wpd2sxw -> app-text/wpd2odt >>> >>>> >>>> =app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1 >>>> >>> >>> Does this mean that libreoffice is going to replace OOo in the tree? >>> >> >> Looks like it. It has already replaced it on all my computers. >> >> Gentoo's OpenOffice has included the go-oo patches for a long time >> anyway, which were the big thing changed about LibreOffice (those >> patches included in mainline), and using the two I can honestly say >> there's really no difference as far as I can tell, aside from the >> splash screen. Somebody posted about some Sun templates a while >> back... maybe something proprietary like that is changed, but >> OpenTemplate.org is meant to replace those anyway. >> >> I would say switch to LibreOffice and don't look back. :) >> >> > > OK. I just wanted to make sure I was reading that right. I guess > Openoffice is a thing of the past now. > > Question, is libreoffice available on winders too? I need to put that on my > bro's rig to if it is. My bro still uses winders. I been waiting on him to > get up some cash to build a new rig with Gentoo on it. ;-)
Yep, I use it on my Windows 7 machine at work, everything is fine. Also available for Macintosh users (or Mac as they seem to call it these days).
