Kamil Paral (kparal@redhat.com) said:
I would like to bring your attention to this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880653
Since you're the maintainers of Fedora Desktop spin, could you please put your opinion into that bug report? I believe there is no reason to have LibreOffice on the DVD and not install it by default. It just wastes user bandwidth (it has to be downloaded from the Internet later) and time. Office suite is something that 99% of users need. Also it is a regression from Fedora 17.
The problem is the current infrastructure doesn't allow for it to be installed by default while remaining deselectable. While that might get fixed, it's highly unlikely to get fixed for F18.
Bill
Ah, that is very unfortunate. What do you think about integrating LibreOffice into GNOME desktop group/environment in F18? That means the checkbox won't be available at all, people will have to remove LibreOffice post-install if they don't want it. If I consider how many people want GNOME desktop with an office suite and how many people want GNOME desktop without an office suite, it seems like a good idea to me. It's more friendly approach. Once the infrastructure is in place in F19, we can separate it again into a standalone checkbox.
And what about the LiveCD? We don't have any comps problems there. I haven't seen any response. I think this is the correct place where questions like this should be decided, right?