openoffice.org-presentation (Impress) currently depends on it. Assuming we would be keeping that on the CD it would need to be tested to see if the libraries in the draw package are needed by Impress to function, which I am pretty certain they are needed. In that case we would have to split them out into a separate package that stays on the cd for Impress, but that would make the space gained by removal very small. It could still be done if the overall effect is that we don't want users seeing the OpenOffice.org Draw icon in the menu.
Also note that OpenOffice.org is a very monolithic office suite and the individual 'App' launchers really all just call the same code (soffice.bin). Each 'App' is just a particular view into that program and each 'App' depends on functionality of the other 'App's so splitting the packaging up to reduce install size has often lead to weird breakage. Its not all linkage via libraries linked at build time, there is code that is dlopened and other code that is called via a registry of sorts. So its nearly impossible to be competely certain which parts of the code are able to safely split into other packages that aren't installed by default which has led to numerous prior bugs in the various distributions that have attempted to do so. Chris On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:27 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > Hey all, > > I forgot to mention this at the session for default app selection but > can we remove Open Office Draw from the default ubuntu install? The > reasons are quite obvious it just isnt any good and I dont think any of > the regular users actually use it. > > --fagan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
