On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote: > 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).
All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. -- Regards, Mick
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