Joerg Barfurth wrote: > BTW: The Linux world is a particularly difficult target for this topic. > It is all nice and well to say every installable piece of software must > be packaged. But when you choose some form of package someone feels left > out. See the protests against us using RPM for OOo, which was chosen, > because it is supported by any LSB-compliant distro. Still there are the > people who say they absolutely need tgz (which does not cater for > manageability at all) or deb (which really also needs an appropriate > repository to do everything that's needed) or whatever else their distro > favors. We support most of that at build level, so every distro can > packge correctly for their clientele. But apparently there also is > demand for an off-the-shelf version from OOo proper. And you can't > expect that every add-on (including proprietary ones) will be packaged > in the correct form by every distro.
But obviously that's exactly what he expects. I think we should stop wasting bandwidth with this fruitless discussion. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
