OpenOffice and LibreOffice sucks life out of me

Just came across an issue with LibreOffice. The port works great, but I made a package which I took to another machine (same ports snapshot and version) and it came up with some sort of error as if the pkg-plist didn't contain everything that was needed.

So I compiled the port and it worked fine.

This issue did not happen with OpenOffice so perhaps it is just a port bug.
 
vermaden said:
I omit *any* office software as fire, if I have to use it, I mostly use ABIWORD/GNUMERIC for those. My work also requires me to be able to edit/open MSO2010 files (docx/xlsx) and I also sometime need Windows (for example for VMware Infrastructure Client), so I use MSO2010 in VirtualBox along with that Windows.

If I need to write some bigger text I prefer simple single HTML file (if it does not requires embedded images) and also LaTeX (tetex @ FreeBSD) for bigger documents to create high quality PDF documents.
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Same here. I need to use Windows inside VM, because of software tools that just don't want to run otherwise. A lot of hardware vendors that I've worked with ship custom management software for their hardware, that just runs on Windows. Without those programs, hardware configuration becomes big PITA (manual Layer 2 discovery, manual SNMP command triggering), so I'm stuck with Windows. And there's dumb vSphere too.

Conclusion...if I need to run Windows somewhere on my machine, then I'll just use best office package out there. And that's MS Office. There are licensing issues, I'm currently using company volume licenses, if I lost those, what the hell, i'd use pirated Office anyway. I like stealing from Microsoft.
 
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