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Bug 464

Summary:	Split KOffice into individual packages
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	other (any)	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	albator78, bugwatch, darrella, michele.calgaro
Priority:	P1
Version:	3.5.13.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Darrell 2011-03-29 14:35:54 CDT

KOffice 1.6.x probably is obsolete. Consider splitting the koffice package into multiple packages, such as base/core libraries, kword, kspread, kpresenter, kivio, krita, etc.

Or keep kword, kspread, kpresenter together but split the remaining apps.

With LibreOffice gaining popularity, many people are unlikely to use koffice. Not to mention that koffice in KDE4 has not seen significant improvements. If the koffice packages are split into individual components, some apps such as krita, kivio, etc., might find renewed life within Trinity.

Comment 1 Darrell 2011-12-07 18:44:23 CST

Based on discussion in the developer's list, the reasons stated likely do not apply. The consensus is to keep KOffice as a "light-weight" office suite.

With that support, splitting the packages remains a good idea. The suite requires more than an hour to build and troubleshooting compiling bugs is frustrating when the build fails at about 90%. If the apps were split into individual packages then troubleshooting could be focused on the failure without needing to rebuild the entire suite.

Apparently some distro maintainers have split the packages successfully so this should be doable.

Comment 2 Darrell 2011-12-31 19:56:07 CST

I'm almost tempted to change this to a bug.

Please consider this enhancement for R14. Koffice is a bear to build and only few packagers try. Even on a dual core system koffice requires more than an hour and a half to build. Having the build fail at an hour and twenty minutes is disheartening.

Building as components would alleviate many build problems.

Comment 3 Francois Andriot 2012-12-28 09:31:29 CST

Does this bug still apply ? Which distribution are you referring to ?

AFAIK the Koffice package is already split in several packages on most distributions. At least it is in the RPM packages, and if I remember well, I wrote them by copying the Debian/Ubuntu packaging files, so it was split there too ...

Comment 4 Darrell 2012-12-28 17:46:38 CST

Slackware.

Possibly this can be resolved through build scripts and packaging. I haven't tried to explore that possibility.

Comment 5 Michele Calgaro 2018-07-27 10:59:53 CDT

Koffice will remain as a suite, since it is a suite.