re r5316: libreoffice and HDD disk space

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Currently, the installer enforces user to allocate 25gb hdd of free space.
This is definitely not enough after liberoffice has been added.

I've suggested to make it optional and let user to install it later manually if 
he wants to. Keep in mind that he might prefer openoffice, calligra or any 
other office suite.

Alternatively, we can to increase our HDD requirements which brings us to  
closer to windows-like overblown distribution.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by blshkv on 26 Dec 2013 at 9:58

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We offer a binpkg for libreoffice. There is no reason the user using defaults 
wouldn't be using binpkgs (thanks to the new installer options) and so they 
don't need all that hdd space for building.  If you want to take defaults and 
assume it works then all the defaults must be used (hdd space, binpkgs).  I see 
no real reason why we need to add hdd space or remove libreoffice.

I will not install something in the livecd that gets immediately cleaned on 
first update process, that makes no sense.  If we want libreoffice to be 
optional that's fine, but it needs a sane use flag not "livecd"

Original comment by sidhayn on 26 Dec 2013 at 5:21

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our binpkg building process is not always up to date. Once outdated (20 days as 
of now), users would need to build all new packages from source. 
Gentoo devs are keep changing the stable libreoffice ebuild, its dependences or 
python. The re-building process would fail since it requires more space than 
allocated.

I've introduced a new "office" flag for that purpose:
https://code.google.com/p/pentoo/source/detail?r=5318
https://code.google.com/p/pentoo/source/detail?r=5319

Original comment by blshkv on 27 Dec 2013 at 3:55

• Changed state: Fixed