[Nix-dev] Libreoffice update to 4.0.5.2

[Mathijs Kwik]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>
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>> Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> writes:
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>> > Hi all,
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>> > I've updated libreoffice to latest stable (released few days ago).
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>> Thanks for this!
>> libreoffice probably isn't the easiest package to maintain :)
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> Don't mention all the fun :)
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>> > There are two caveats though:
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>> > - Due to help being translated to so many packages total size when
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>> > is 2.1G (help is 1.4G). Any objections for making help optional?
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>> Do we keep English help?
>> And an option to install all others?
>> I don't think we need more fine grained selections.
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>> 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.
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> 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 :)

That branch is for splitting huge parts of the stdenv and other big packages.
The multiple-outputs nix functionality itself has been available for
some time and is already being used by some packages (including mesa).
So no need to wait for multiple-outputs to merge.

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>> > - 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
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>> > space for improvements
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>> > 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.
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> 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").).
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> I'd stick to using stable releases, but we could have a "libreoffice_latest"
> expression in nixpkgs for testing.
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Only if that doesn't take twice your time.
Honestly, I never missed anything using 3.6, it's not that office
tools are on an invention-spree :P