Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:57:30AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> No joke, it has been yesterday that somebody told me "Debian is weird,
> because it installs two word processors by default."
>
> Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 11:02 +0200 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> > That’s not a good solution either, since there are lots of features OOo
> > has that abiword/gnumeric don’t.
>
> I'd say that people who know they will use the advanced features of
> Abiword (e.g. collaborative writing) will also know how to install it.
> And, installing Abiword is less a burden than installing OOo-writer
> because of the smaller package size.
Isn't abiword part of the gnome desktop task?
I have also encountered many word documents that opened correctly
in abiword but were a mess in openoffice, so I sure don't bother with
openoffice for word documents anymore. Openoffice is handy for powerpoint
files though to view them.
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Len Sorensen
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