OpenOffice gaining on MSOffice?

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Tue Aug 3 15:31:55 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 11:50, Paul Vandenberg wrote:
> I don't use the Fedora supplied OpenOffice RPMs. The total install
> size is around 550MB. I prefer the tarball from openoffice.org. The
> total install size is less than half at about 250MB. The reason is
> that Fedora forces you to install the i18n package which contains
> every language module for OpenOffice. If you download the tarball from
> openoffice.org, you only download and install the language you need.

And is there a way to change/improve that behavior for the Fedora
RPM...?

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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
Simpaticus.com





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