In the News: September 1, 2026
Simon Willison found a full LibreOffice install bundled into Codex's runtime cache, and a dated bug report shows how that dependency fails on some Macs.
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Codex's runtime cache bundles LibreOffice with Homebrew library dependencies
Willison was clearing disk space with OmniDiskSweeper when he found 1.7GB in ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime, the local runtime cache for the OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to ChatGPT). Inside: a full Python…
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