Were did you get your packages from (what version?):
On my mirror in /centos/4.2/os/SRPMS:
181772014 Sep 1 01:04 openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.src.rpm
and in /centos/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS:
122007463 Aug 23 12:10 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
35739789 Aug 23 12:10 openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
40267738 Aug 23 12:11 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
105134 Aug 23 12:10 openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
total 195MB or thereabouts
Cheers,
MaZe.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tim Edwards wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone here knows why the OO.org packages on
> RHEL/Centos are so huge.
> Eg. On Mandriva 2006:
> 40834529 OpenOffice.org
> 113064600 OpenOffice.org-libs
> 20124669 OpenOffice.org-help-en
> 19976941 OpenOffice.org-l10n-en
>
> = ~185MB
>
> On Centos 4:
> 683298379 openoffice.org-i18n
> 124072694 openoffice.org
> 111894560 openoffice.org-libs
>
> = ~876MB!!
>
> When I say 'installed by default' I mean that I selected the 'Office' package
> group during the install of both OSes and didn't make any custom package
> selections. Both OSes have OO.org 1.1 working fine, I'm just wondering why
> costs me nearly 5 times as much disk space on RHEL/Centos than it does on
> another distro?
>
>
