Re: [orca-list] [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice (fwd)

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Hey Jude,

Thanks for bringing this up.  I'm subscribed to arch-general but
haven't been reading it just lately so wasn't aware of this
development.  I hope the libreOffice code base has all the a11y fixes
we recently have obtained from OOo.  It doesn't hurt me much to dump
Oracle.  Frankly they act like a greedy company that buys up its
competetors and desolves all the good stuff like the a11y office.  I
know there have been recent a11y fixes like the navigator and stuff
which I sure hope are in libreoffice; if those are there, then no
problem to me.

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:10:17PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:45:34
> From: Andreas Radke <a radke arcor de>
> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general archlinux org>
> To: arch-dev-public archlinux org
> Cc: arch-general archlinux org
> Subject: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice
>
> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle
> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos.
>
> First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the
> Office packaging area and nobody stepped in.
>
> Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the
> distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds
> and their interest. They break the build against system libs
> every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to
> fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of
> Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation
> has given at its birth.
>
> So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As
> soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this
> I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing
> to maintain them.
>
>
> Any objections to add 
> "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg?
>
> -Andy
>
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