[Nix-dev] Libreoffice update to 4.0.5.2

[Mathijs Kwik]

Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've updated libreoffice to latest stable (released few days ago). 

Thanks for this!
libreoffice probably isn't the easiest package to maintain :)

> There are two caveats though:
>
> - Due to help being translated to so many packages total size when unpacked
> is 2.1G (help is 1.4G). Any objections for making help optional?

Do we keep English help?
And an option to install all others?
I don't think we need more fine grained selections.

This might be a nice target for multiple-outputs though.
That way, the core (with english help) is shared, meaning people who
select the all-languages option won't need to build everything from
scratch if hydra provides both outputs.

>
> - libreoffice has quite some external dependencies and the way we build
> them now is messy (we just fetch all of them inside and run make), there is
> space for improvements
>
> Domen
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And just curious...
Why upgrade to 4.0, while 4.1 is out?
I would expect skipping a version would save some work, but maybe going
step-by-step it's easier to follow dependency/build-system changes.