Hi, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:21:08AM +0000, Sveinn í Felli wrote: > It's quite surreal to see some power users/developers not seeing or > refusing to see that the whole concept of the software in question > IS a big metaphor: Office.
Wrong, I do see it. > And its users are using GUIs and other metaphors for handling the > software; for even the most capable of them the CLI is at best > scary. Correct, they are *users* _of the office_. For that I agree, they don't need to worry. For people *installing* the office and thus effectively *asministering* their system it *does* matter. > And the sysadmins I've been working with are normally too overloaded > to remember upgrading manually the LibO/OOo packages on their > systems (my language is not yet in the official distribution > channels). They want their software to come through official and > reliable repositories. > So it took about 30 minutes of searching and fiddling to create a > Packages.gz file and publishing the packages as our localised .deb > repository. Think it's similar for other flavors like yum .rpm. > Still I'd like a primary metapackage so we could install/deinstall > ONE package instead of the whole bunch. You can trivially create one if you have the above in a Packages.gz anyways. > Anyway, I presume LibO will not be distributed this way in the > future, 'dpkg -i *.deb' or 'rpm -ivh *.rpm' will be reserved for > testing/development/adventurous people. > Linux users will get their LibreOffice through their package > managers, probably via distribution specific repositories. I think I Exactly. Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
