Bug 574608

Summary:	app-office/libreoffice - allow users to specify which applications are installed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Jones <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Jones 2016-02-13 08:43:00 UTC

I think this is a fairly straightforward enhancement request, though I can't speak to the complexity of actually implementing it.

I have libreoffice 5.0.3.2 installed on my system. It installs, among other things, LibreOffice Math, Draw, Base, Calc, Impress, Writer

I'd like the ability to specify, using use flags, that I only want Writer and Calc. For me, the other applications are unneeded.

Of course, there are multiple ways to achieve this. One could be to simply not install the unspecified applications, even after compiling all of them. Another way could be to (somehow) cause the libreoffice compile process to forego compiling the undesired applications. 

Thanks for your consideration

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2016-02-29 00:05:10 UTC

See also: bug 549548

Comment 2 Michael Jones 2016-02-29 00:08:20 UTC

Hrmm.

Even if the application doesn't support this, isn't it desirable?

Perhaps leave this bug, or the previous, as confirmed, and then mark it as waiting for upstream, instead of rejecting it?

Or reject it I guess. It's your bug tracker.

Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2016-02-29 02:15:22 UTC

This is always desirable, and Gentoo were among the first to follow upstream as soon as the option would become available.

Building it all only to throw away the parts you don't need would mostly waste CPU time and not save much space - for sure introduce bugs as soon as you remove more than desktop files and icons. Only to find out you'd need to build it all over again just to get back that small handle to launch base, draw etc.

Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2016-03-26 21:31:43 UTC

(In reply to Michael Jones from comment #2)
> Hrmm.
> 
> Even if the application doesn't support this, isn't it desirable?
> 
> Perhaps leave this bug, or the previous, as confirmed, and then mark it as
> waiting for upstream, instead of rejecting it?
> 
> Or reject it I guess. It's your bug tracker.

I see no real point in us doing that without upstream. 

(We tried this with KDE, and it was in part a real pain in the ...)

Once the official build system supports it...