[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

Mon Apr 30 05:03:02 CEST 2012

Donald Gimp is one of those packages that I think would be ok to remove 
+from the Live CD's, if something will replace it at least to some extent 
+such as Shotwell.
+
+What's Hugin?
+
+On 29/04/12, David W. Hodgins:
+> Looking at the list, the first one I would consider removing is
+> inkscape.  I'ts large, a leaf package, and doesn't look like
+> something that a lot of people would use. 
+
+As for Inkscape I think that's a good idea to remove.
+
+On 29/04/12, Sander Lepik:
+> What about LibreOffice? LiveCD is mostly for testing. And LO doesn't 
+> change much in time. Do we really need to keep it on LiveCDs? Maybe 
+> some smaller alternative for it? Calligra for example? We would save a 
+> lot of space.
+>
+
+As for LibreOffice I think that should stay on the CD, because certain 
+users will want to use that on the CD.  In fact recently someone from my 
+LUG tried out Mageia 1 Gnome and KDE, from Live CD's, and trying out 
+LibreOffice was part of the Mageia 1 review that was sent to the LUG 
+mailing list. I assume they tried LibreOffice from Live CD.
+
+Here's a reason why I think LibreOffice should stay on the CD's of 
+Mageia for probably many releases to come: 
+http://blog.mageia.org/en/2010/11/14/mageia-supports-libreoffice/  Yes 
+since Mageia is giving LibreOffice full official support, and to do so, 
+it has to be on the Live CD's, in my opinion.
+
+Calligra uses Qt so I guess that would mean the Gnome Live CD would 
+require Qt installed on it, to run it, so I guess as a result that's 
+out.  Unless the KDE and Gnome versions start having some differences 
+when it comes to additional software.
+
+There are apps that could be used together to replace LibreOffice for 
+many tasks, such as Abiword and Gnumeric, and so on.
+