I believe that since no Lubuntu version has ever carried libreoffice-base nor has any Ubuntu variant ever carried it by default, that it’s just been decided that “unless there is MAJOR demand for it, we’re not going to include it.” I cannot speak for anyone on the team or decisions, but… feature request)īut please note, these are only my thoughts, as I have no special knowledge as I wasn’t in the discussions, and wasn’t in the Lubuntu team until after the decision had been made.įYI: For now at least, the following link provides a pretty good comparison of old legacy & unsupported LXDE Lubuntu & our new modern Lubuntu LXQt. It increases the size of the ISO ( focal & hirsute ISOs fitted on a 2GB drive, impish has already exceeded that size needing a larger thumb-drive… this would have occurred earlier if the Libreoffice Base ( database) program had been included due to requirements also needing to be included.

We didn’t have a database in the legacy or LXDE Lubuntu I only started QA-testing Lubuntu in the cosmic or 18.10 cycle (first LXQt release) where the switch from the apps to Qt5 had already occurred in prior Lubuntu Next releases. I can’t answer that sorry, I can only give an opinion or really guess.

Please note I’ve used my primary impish system for my queries, but I believe the answers will be identical to a hirsute system No a default Lubuntu 21.04 install ( impish too) does not include the Libreoffice database or ‘base’ application. So it actually pulls in quite a few packages. Whilst the two packages may not seem like a lot, they have ( dependency) requirements, many of which we don’t include apt-cache depends libreoffice-base Though there is an extra optional component as well libreoffice-base-nogui - office productivity suite - database (no GUI variant)` Libreoffice-base-drivers - Database connectivity drivers for LibreOffice Libreoffice-base-core - office productivity suite - shared libraryīut needed to make the database program work are libreoffice-base - office productivity suite - database

The fact that we include libreoffice-base-core may have been misleading as it’s purpose is My prior answer didn’t fully answer your question, so sorry about that.

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