[dba-Tech] Mostly a request for developers

[Stuart McLachlan]

Don't know about the others, but you can definitely install only the MS Office components  
you want. You can also add/remove components subsequently by running Setup.

On 25 Jul 2019 at 14:32, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> Microsoft, LibreOffice and WPS Office all make the same assumption,
> that I want to install everything included in the package, and
> similarly for the UnInstall: it seems non-trivial to uninstall every
> component individually. Maybe this capability already exists and I
> have yet to discover it. Concrete example: WPS Office provides
> superior comparability with MS-Word, compared to LibreOffice Writer),
> but lacks any equivalent to Access, which LibreOffice provides. In the
> ideal world I would like to strip LibreOffice from my box, except I
> want to keep Base, a really cool approximation to Access. I guess I
> have enough disk space for both to sit side by side, but this strikes
> me as inelegant. Is there a "partial uninstall" available on either
> suite? I have no need for either equivalent of PowerPoint, those days
> are long behind me. I don't need their Excel equivalents either, since
> Google Sheets is available on all my devices. So, the request: I want
> the providers of such all-in-one solutions to provide fragmented
> installations, so I can pick and choose which pieces I want and
> un-check those of no interest.
> 
> -- 
> Arthur
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