From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 08:56:24 EDT
On 24 Jun 2003, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> Date: 24 Jun 2003 12:20:44 +0000
> From: Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>
> To: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Gnome Office [Re: Dublin meeting]
>
> On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:59, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > I suggested to Martin that I thought a combined easy to use Gnome
> > Office package that included both Abiword and Gnumeric would be really
> > good. (Other programs could be added later of course)
> > Martin explained to me that Gnumeric does not currently provide RPM
> > packages and I said I would ask Rui very very nicely if he was interested.
> > Interested?
>
> Hi,
>
> I have volunteered to give a hand-job on gnumerics spec previously but I
> have failed in that, sorry. I'll dedicate more time to it (I hope I can
> easily compile gnumeric on my home computer).
>
> I'm not interested at all in making a RPM spec for GNUMERIC+ABIWORD
> (that would be really dumb, package-unwise and Microsoft-like).
You might think it is dumb but that is the whole point.
It is not trying to be smart it is trying to be convenient.
Microsoft understands this, there are some things they actually do right.
> What could probably be done is a zenity-sized shell program that would
> fetch official RPMS from the web sites and them rpm -ivh or dpkg-install
> (or whatever) but I'm not sure if I could handle it or if doing it this
> way would be a good idea.
This wouldn't be a whole lot of use to me in the situation I have in mind
but it would be sweet to be able to:
apt-get gnome-office
I have the use of a fast connection but not on my home machine. It is
very useful to be able to download one single package and then go home
and install it without having to worry about a whole lot of missed
dependencies and suchlike.
I a not suggesting a huge static build, more like a package that includes
any extras I might need (libgal for example) and installs it iff
necessary.
I hope you can understand that for many users time and convenience is more
important than a little extra bandwidth or disk space.
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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