Re: [gNewSense-users] LibreOffice for Parkes

[Sam Geeraerts]

Dmitry Samoyloff wrote:
> > > Are there LibreOffice packages for Parkes (on Yeeloong)?
> > Parkes will have Squeeze's (slightly patched) OpenOffice.org. I haven't
> checked if LO in squeeze-backports suffers from the scandoc.pl problem
>
> Why OO? I'm a little confused, is OO preferable compared to LO in some way
> (in the sense of freedom or strategically)?

Backporting is usually a lot of work, and more so for big packages with 
lots of dependencies, like OO.o/LO.