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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 26 01:32:39 -0800
2006 -------
I'm sorry, as I'm not a native english speeker, I didn't understand the
meaning of "being sking for something" (and didn't find any good dictionnary
on my desktop that could help me).
Anyway, I believe you that the main rpms are relocatable, even if I cannot
test it. As I've managed to install in a temporary directory other than
tmp/opt/openoffice, I think OpenOffice files are indeed relative to each
other. I would find it more simple not to add the "opt/" prefix in the RPMs,
but this is definitively not a show stopper.
But, as far as the menu integration RPMs is concerned, I was not clear enough
I think. To be able to install in another directory, or as a simple user, I
simply suggests:
- to have the desktop packages detect the location of OpenOffice, or accept an
option to tell them;
- to detect if they are run in root account or simply as a user;
- if run as root:
* set up the /etc/openoffice.org-2.0 symbolic link to the right directory
(this is the first relocation problem);
* detect the location of desktops to integrate with (KDE, Gnome), and copy
desktop integration files in these directories (this is the second relocation
problem, they **may** not be in /opt/kde or /opt/gnome !!).
- if run as user (for non-root install):
* add a ~/openoffice.org-2.0 symbolic link to the right directory (which
would be in ~/whatever the user chose in this case);
* add symbolic links for soffice and spadmin in ~/
* copy the desktop integration files in the user's desktop configuration
directory (for instance, ~/.kde).
I think detecting openoffice, kde and gnome target directory can be done with
rpm and apt...
This would make the installation process usable in non root account, and would
make desktop integration fully relocatable, and more generic (ie : depending
only on the package tool of the distro).
Finally, simply add to the readme file in the tarball explanations of which
packages are needed and must be installed. Not all users will look at the
desktop integration directory, since nobody told them to do so. Reducing the
package numbers would help a lot too (core, writer, calc, base, impress, draw,
and desktop packages for instance, as I explained previously).
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