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

Mon Apr 30 13:22:23 CEST 2012

On 30 April 2012 04:03, Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Well that is de specific, yes gimp is written in gtk, but it is almost
+independent in my mind from GNOME. I still feel that it is a rather
+specialist programme to have.
+>
+> What's Hugin?
+
+Hugin is for panorama's, and while have the kipi-plugin for
+gwenview/digikam is nice, I don't feel that it merits the weight of
+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.
+>
+
+I agree with this, inkscape really is something specialist.
+
+> 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.
+
+Libreoffice should stay, when my hard disk failed, this allowed me to
+still complete my work while waiting for a new on to arrive.
+
+>
+> 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.
+