I appreciate and am empathetic to all of those carrying the burden of this and the thousands of other RPM packages. As a users of Fedora + RPM Fusion + Cinnamon Desktop as my daily laptop driver since 2011, I love Fedora and am a heavy user of Flatpacks. So thank you all.
That said, I will point out that I have heard of at least 4 enterprise customers who use libreoffice as a headless file conversion utility. I have seen it used in customer facing production workflows, such as a financial user support website to handle file uploads provided by end users, as well as medical health records systems used by hospitals and doctors offices.
https://www.libreofficehelp.com/batch-convert-writer-documents-pdf-libreoffice/
I am not asking for a change in strategy. I understand our resource challenges. I only wanted to share this perspective. Packaging the RPMS in EPEL could alleviate the pain for these customers in the RHEL 10 timeframe, as well as a container image (maybe built from the rpms pulled from EPEL?).
Hope this is helpful. And again, THANK YOU!
Terry Bowling
Sr. Product Manager - RHEL Installation & Build Services Experience
Red Hat, Inc.