[Live-demo] geopublisher sucking in openoffice? & missing project descriptions

[Cameron Shorter]

On 2/02/2010 6:06 PM, Stefan Krüger wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 20:57:07 schrieb Alex Mandel:
>    
>> Hamish wrote:
>>      
>>> Stefan Krüger wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Sorry for the troubles.. I can add
>>>> "--no-install-recommends" to my apt-get install script any
>>>> minute.
>>>>          
>>> more generally we should add:
>>>
>>> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>>> APT::Install-Suggests "false";
>>>
>>>
>>> somewhere in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
>>>
>>> rather than asking packagers to have to do that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hamish
>>>        
>> I should have mentioned, Ubuntu has changed it policy and now installs
>> Recommends by default. I'm a little torn on this particular one, since
>> Open Office is a useful tool when dealing with dbf files. I'm not sure
>> if gnumeric handles them as well.
>>      
> Sadly gnumeric can only open .dbf, but not save .dbf.
>
>    

Much as I would love to have Open Office on the LiveDVD, I think we need 
to remember why we moved to Xubuntu over Ubuntu in the first place.
Effectively we want an image that uses less RAM, but also is smaller, 
easier to download and hence more likely to be downloaded.
So unless one of the GIS applications need Open Office exclusively to 
work effectively, I suggest we don't include it.

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