From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QODNc-0004sc-67 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 May 2011 18:27:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 279F71C078; Sun, 22 May 2011 18:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D9E1C078 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 18:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so2444316gxk.40 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 11:26:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=RzXw/hr0oDN8DgoalsH85Ei7+dCus5RAF80pZFWtOAQ=; b=SZyGN53/Qa3wu7iAYUUy5kN3l5TNEyAsHybGdcFmT/eB6QJ8Z8rq+XLyVXkFRRwO94 7i+vQDbOQ37bUc9+NT4oylnYvy9CN/lFzO1ligMdmByzhpCs2q8oYQsGa8dat4Rm1U6+ rulzgMKilmBchOKkbiciILb0ORwXEFA2BvcB8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=tNpeGLIjHoWZgsNLmIbhNwUSHzl1h3HV2CH1sK2v2TEciA6dRBST16ewqO7V++FIIC NSQPJAgPyY52HXxlt/2lQlxbANwRZqtygwuEPfqd5c9lbfAZOYoBxwWIYlif5BYaQpC7 p1F72+VYBHHvviJlgYnJItVA1xQROjl98m3lA= Received: by 10.90.204.9 with SMTP id b9mr2271074agg.75.1306088788239; Sun, 22 May 2011 11:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari.merseine.nu (adsl-72-152-78-99.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.78.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm4207702ann.50.2011.05.22.11.26.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 22 May 2011 11:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 14:26:14 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5 Message-ID: <20110522182614.GA8663@gaurahari.merseine.nu> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8aa0ef38854392d0781d0ee62a060ebd On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did o= pine=20 > thusly: >=20 > > It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast, light, standalone > > programs to deal with the formats of word, excel, powerpoint, etc but > > if we did odds are most people would shun them for a big, bloaty > > office suite anyway. Personally, I'd love it if I could open and edit > > those office formats in vim... >=20 >=20 > What makes you think they don't *already* exist? > The fact that none of your examples fit the bill. > Small, fast, light, standalone: yeah, they are all there. > Your definition of "small, fast, and light" strikes me as most=20 peculiar. Anything that requires a full-bloat DE (or enoough of its libs it might as well do so) is not "standalone" by any definition, and is unl= ikely to be "small, fast, and light". I know all things are relative, but be real. --=20 caveat utilitor=20 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB=20