Bug#484287: tasksel: avoid installing java through OpenOffice with desktop task
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
Does it alsa breaks Calc as datasource too? I don't recall if MS
Access is required for it to work in MS Office...
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