reassign 484287 openoffice.org retitle 484287 Please consider reducing dependency on oo.o-filter-binfilter thanks On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > 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. In the mean time Rene Engelhard has explained the limitations of this plan on IRC. Turns out that java is also recommended by a number of packages in order to drive various wizzards, including some rather basic and expected-to-be there-ones. So completely dropping java is out of the question. I then had another look at what could be possible and came up with four candidates: - openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev - only 1 MB, not worth it - openoffice.org-writer2latex - only 1 MB, not worth it - openoffice.org-base - 8 MB, but for "only" that probably worth keeping - openoffice.org-filter-binfilter - 25 MB The -binfilter package mainly provides support for StarOffice documents, which is a legacy application. It seems reasonable to change that from a Depends to a Recommends as most users will not need it. Being able to save 25 MB for our first CDs seems a reasonable reason to do this. For those that do need the package, adding it in the description under "you can extend the functionality by..." seems a good idea. > Another 5MB could possibly be saved by changing oo.org-style-andromeda > (MS Office-like style package) from Depends to Recommends in > oo.org-common. This package is required when another desktop environment than Gnome/KDE is used, so not really an option. Reassigning to OOo as the -binfilter change really should be made in the meta package and not in tasksel. Cheers, FJP
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