[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

[Sebastian]

Donald Gimp is one of those packages that I think would be ok to remove 
from the Live CD's, if something will replace it at least to some extent 
such as Shotwell.

What's Hugin?

On 29/04/12, David W. Hodgins:
> Looking at the list, the first one I would consider removing is
> inkscape.  I'ts large, a leaf package, and doesn't look like
> something that a lot of people would use. 

As for Inkscape I think that's a good idea to remove.

On 29/04/12, Sander Lepik:
> What about LibreOffice? LiveCD is mostly for testing. And LO doesn't 
> change much in time. Do we really need to keep it on LiveCDs? Maybe 
> some smaller alternative for it? Calligra for example? We would save a 
> lot of space.
>

As for LibreOffice I think that should stay on the CD, because certain 
users will want to use that on the CD.  In fact recently someone from my 
LUG tried out Mageia 1 Gnome and KDE, from Live CD's, and trying out 
LibreOffice was part of the Mageia 1 review that was sent to the LUG 
mailing list. I assume they tried LibreOffice from Live CD.

Here's a reason why I think LibreOffice should stay on the CD's of 
Mageia for probably many releases to come: 
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2010/11/14/mageia-supports-libreoffice/  Yes 
since Mageia is giving LibreOffice full official support, and to do so, 
it has to be on the Live CD's, in my opinion.

Calligra uses Qt so I guess that would mean the Gnome Live CD would 
require Qt installed on it, to run it, so I guess as a result that's 
out.  Unless the KDE and Gnome versions start having some differences 
when it comes to additional software.

There are apps that could be used together to replace LibreOffice for 
many tasks, such as Abiword and Gnumeric, and so on.