Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le dimanche 25 avril 2010 à 21:58 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> Package: tasksel
> Version: 2.81
> Severity: minor
> Tags: squeeze
> 
> Hi,  tasksel installs two entire office suites on a freshly installed Debian
> desktop system, namely openoffice.org and gnome-office. So there are two word
> processing and two spreadsheet applications (plus the IMHO rather useless
> planner application) installed, which all require hard disk space and
> installation time. I'd suggest to drop one of both office suites either
> directly in tasksel or by e.g. making the gnome meta-package depend on
> something like "gnome-office | openoffice.org-gnome".  Cheers, Fabian

I agree it is a problem, but there is no perfect solution.
      * The OOo integration with GNOME is a joke.
      * Gnumeric and Abiword both have features that OOo has not.

As for planner, I’m not sure either. Maybe it’s not suitable for the
default installation.

In all cases, dropping gnome-office altogether is not the way to go,
since currently it’s the dependency that brings inkscape (which beats
OOo draw by knock-out), gimp and xsane.

Cheers,
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