Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
>
> Even my ancient LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 (stock from Lubuntu 12.04) reads/writes
> docx/xlsx.  It's buggy, but mostly works.  I'm hoping when I get around to
> upgrading to 14.04 (or Mint) and get LibreOffice 4.2.3 it will improve.
> Current on libreoffice.org is 4.2.5...

It has been ages since I've run an "ordinary" desktop distro.  Do they
not just push out updates to packages like LibreOffice as soon as they
come out?

Gentoo is on 4.2.3.3 on stable and 4.2.4.2 on testing (and you can run
testing packages on a stable system if you want to be more recent on a
particular package - just tell it you want to follow testing for that
package).

I can see why a binary distro wouldn't want to update something like
glibc without a major release.  However, LibreOffice shouldn't really
have any reverse-dependencies.  So, I can't see why you'd hold it up
beyond what is necessary for testing (which is why Gentoo stable is
only on 4.2.3.3).

Rich
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