On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 01:05 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > 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
It might buy us a little space but probably not too much so I would really only advise doing it if we intend the change to be just for hiding the Draw application. We might be able to actually remove it without any related crashes happening but I am pretty sure that at minimum the ability to draw items in Impress would be removed, which would probably confuse users. Chris -- 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
