Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 20:26 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine 
thusly:

> 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
> > opine
> > 
> > thusly:
> > > 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...
> > 
> > What makes you think they don't *already* exist?
> 
> The fact that none of your examples fit the bill.

s/the/my/

there you go. Fixed that little oversight you made there.

> 
> > Small, fast, light, standalone: yeah, they are all there.
> 
> Your definition of "small, fast, and light" strikes me as most
> 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
> unlikely to be "small, fast, and light". I know all things are relative,
> but be real.

No, I think you need to get real. It's 2011, what did you expect? 

Any such project as a small light fast office suite has to include Gnome 
and/or KDE support to some degree. Without it, it's just dead in the water. 
And it's of sufficient complexity that scratch one's itch is unlikely to go 
anywhere - it's not a one person project.

If we have to discuss this logically, you are going to have to define your 
terms. What are your requirements?

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