[Solar-general] Fwd: [Parabola] Fwd: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

Mar Mar 8 15:06:57 CET 2011

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nicolás Reynolds <fauno en kiwwwi.com.ar>
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:31
Subject: [Parabola] Fwd: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice
To: Parabola Hackers <dev en list.parabolagnulinux.org>

this is good news! so far many +1s from the arch community.

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Radke <a.radke en arcor.de> -----

> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:45:34 +0100
> From: Andreas Radke <a.radke en arcor.de>
> To: arch-dev-public en archlinux.org
> Cc: arch-general en archlinux.org
> Subject: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice
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>
> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle
> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos.
>
> First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the
> Office packaging area and nobody stepped in.
>
> Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the
> distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds
> and their interest. They break the build against system libs
> every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to
> fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of
> Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation
> has given at its birth.
>
> So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As
> soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this
> I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing
> to maintain them.
>
>
> Any objections to add
> "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg?
>
> -Andy
>

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