On Sunday 04 September 2005 02:09, Michael Adams wrote:
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:38:35 +0200
>
> "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 13:03:15 PM -0700, Dane Mutters
> >
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > That said, I know that there is some effort to port OOo to every
> > > distribution imaginable.
> >
> > My understanding is that OO.o developers explicitly ignore the issue,
> > because something like this:
> >
> > should really be done by the maintainers/ packagers of each
> > distro and
>
> <snip>
>
> I agree wholeheartedly with this point. The maintainers of the distro
> know best how to package for their distro. One of the reasons for this
> is POSIX compliance. which means many distro's are putting files in
> different directories to that which others use. eg /opt OR /usr/share,
> /etc/rc.d/rc1.d OR /etc/rc1.d.
Agreed, and nothing is stopping these packagers working with the OOo
developers to get the relevant code/configuration into OOo code base. This is
already done by Novell/SuSE, RedHat and Debian developers.
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