To be honest, I've been an evangelist for Moodle for a long time now, ever since we started using it on campus back in 2007. But this "enhancement" really rather pisses me off, and makes what used to be a VERY SIMPLE install configuration a real pain in the butt...and unnecessarily so.
What was wrong with the old way of doing things? From a sysadmin perspective, it's a really bad idea to require software like Libre Office on a server...to the extent that SLES12 doesn't even include it in their default repositories...!
PLEASE, can we rethink this awful decision????