On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 18:28 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > 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
Hey Chris, So in short its not worth the time to remove it really. I really dont like open office in general but I suppose till something better comes along we will have to put up with it and its quirks. I just thought there was an easier way of splitting the office apart. --fagan > 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
