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



Le samedi 25 septembre 2010 à 10:25 -0400, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : 
> 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.

I’ve seen that (with both abiword and gnumeric), and I’ve seen the
opposite too: documents that display fine in OOo but have everything
messed up in abiword.

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 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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`. `'  “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone,
  `-    […] I will see what I can do for you.”  -- Jörg Schilling

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