[Nix-dev] Libreoffice update to 4.0.5.2

[Domen Kožar]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>wrote:

> 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 :)
>

Don't mention all the fun :)


>
> > 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.
>

We could build only English help for now and have that as parameter. When
multiple-outputs branch is merged, we can make the next step :)


>
> >
> > - 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.
>

4.1 is still considered somewhat not final (from libreoffice.org: This
version of LibreOffice is prepared with care and presented with pride by
the LibreOffice community. PLEASE NOTE that, since this is the very second
version in the series, make sure to read the release notes (under "Handy
resources").).

I'd stick to using stable releases, but we could have a
"libreoffice_latest" expression in nixpkgs for testing.
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