OpenOffice gaining on MSOffice?

[Paul Vandenberg]

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:31:55 -0600
> From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice gaining on MSOffice?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1091547115.2801.0.camel at rodolfo.paiz.org>
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> 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...?
>

The packagers would have to split up the language modules into
separate RPMs as Mandrake does.

Paul