On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 03:04:46 AM +1000, Justin Clift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Marco Fioretti wrote: > <snip> > >When reading about a template and extension installer, their > >reaction was: > > > >>Please don't...On a package-based system any stuff not installed > >>via the native packaging system is a cause of much annoyance and > >>grief...[better]fix something else in openoffice.org instead of > >>inflicting yet another auto-downloader/installer on us. > > Ok. It sounds like any such installer should really be a front end > that can retrieve the package, but (for best utility) would really > need to know how to plug it in through the native installer for the > platform.
No. Not at all. It sounds like: 1) there should be NO extra, tool-specific installer (for OOo, Firefox, whatever) to sit on top (=hide, possibly confuse or conflict) on what already exists to do the same job with a complete view of the system (libraries, etc). Instead, 2) macros, templates, clip-art, whatever, should be (also) packaged, labeled and made available on servers in such a way that the native system installer can find and install them. Even automatically. Note that to do what you suggest you would have to do 2) above anyway, because if the oo.o installer must only fire up the native one, packages should be in the format of the latter anyway. So you must not click something in ooo that opens an ooo specific program that messes up the system. You must make sure that the _native_ installer can present, in its package selection window, its own label/submenu of "OO.o extensions", pointing to online repositories where the stuff is already in the native format. How much of all this belongs to OO.o developers/contributors and how much to distro packagers is another issue, but not doing things this way really messes up things. This is their whole point. No tool specific installer is needed. Ciao, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Life is what happens whilst you're busy making other plans (John Lennon) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
