Bug#484287: tasksel: avoid installing java through OpenOffice with desktop task

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>]

Frans Pop wrote:
> Package: tasksel
> Version: 2.74
> Severity: wishlist
>
> As previously discussed on IRC we could save 109MB installed size and 43MB 
> download size/CD space for the desktop task by dropping the parts of 
> OpenOffice that depend on Java.
>
> This will result in the removal of:
> * packages depending on openoffice.org-java-common:
>   - openoffice.org-base (MS Access equivalent, not a real -base package)

This will also remove the "mail merge" functionality (i.e., fetching values from 
some data source or maybe from a spreadsheet, and printing them on envelopes in 
the address field and as attribution on paper sheets to be put inside these 
envelopes). Is this OK?

If MS Office also requires installation of MS Access for mail merge, please note 
this in this bug report and forget my comment.

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Alexander E. Patrakov