> Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:31:55 -0600 > From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: OpenOffice gaining on MSOffice? > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1091547115.2801.0.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 11:50, Paul Vandenberg wrote: >> I don't use the Fedora supplied OpenOffice RPMs. The total install >> size is around 550MB. I prefer the tarball from openoffice.org. The >> total install size is less than half at about 250MB. The reason is >> that Fedora forces you to install the i18n package which contains >> every language module for OpenOffice. If you download the tarball >> from >> openoffice.org, you only download and install the language you need. > > And is there a way to change/improve that behavior for the Fedora > RPM...? > The packagers would have to split up the language modules into separate RPMs as Mandrake does. Paul
