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FS#24851 - [libreoffice] Splitted packages for each program of the suite

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by metre (metre) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 20:53 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 09:57 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Why is LibreOffice an 'all-in-one' package?
I read time ago that "From memory it is because it is not worth it. The common base files take up ~95% of the package, and the frontends 1% each. This could have changed..."

Is it changed?
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 24 June 2011, 09:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Comment by metre (metre) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 20:55 GMT
( for reference, I read it from 'Allan' on this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117988 )
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 22:50 GMT
From what I can see, all libreoffice components call the same binary: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash.bin
Do you have reasons to believe that it has changed?

P.S. Can you actually receive mail at the address you gave in your flyspray account?
Comment by metre (metre) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 00:16 GMT
I have no consistent reasons (Severity: Very Low), I just made a hypothesis based on the fact that I saw split packages on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/src/
OT: Yes, I can receive e-mails
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 05:09 GMT
Following the splitting on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/src/ would be useless for end users and only increase packaging complexity.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 09:57 GMT
for reference: building splitted packages would be nice and should be possible. but so far it's not yet supported usptream in an easy way. the packager would have to fiddle around to move all required files into proper places. sure this can be done and there's some help in the upstream build scripts and you can look how debian/ubuntu, FC and OpenSuSE create their packages.

as always: patches welcome! (users wanted splitted SDK builds and we implemented this.)

So whoever has to provide PKGBUILD patches feel free to ask for reopening this task. One day I may come this myself if I'm feeling bored myself...

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