On Jan 28, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Todd Walton as of Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:08:42AM -0800:On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:49:48 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This is why I've not updated my copy of OpenOffice.org -- software that
demands access or refused to run counts as malicious.
What's the deal with OpenOffice.org?
Requires root access to install (under OS X). I was told that I should just provide the password to let it install, and objection to such things merely indicated I didn't understand The UNIX Way.
To be fair, OpenOffice does a *lot* of groveling in various directories
to work stuff out (java permissions, fonts and printer access particularly suck).
And, to be fair, have you filed a bug report?
NeoOffice/J (which is effectively OpenOffice for Aqua) also wanted it. I think
that's actually a peculiarity of the OS X package manager. I will cut NeoOffice
some slack as it 1) runs under Aqua (no X11, woo hoo!) and 2) interfaces to the
native printing system. (I think AbiWord is the only other one to do this.)
And, yes, NeoOffice now has a bug report about this. Bug #414 submitted by YT.
I actually like the fact that most OS X programs now just come as a bundle that
you can drag and drop into Applications. That's it. No OS tweaking, no root
passwords, nada. It ... just ... works. (see Fire and Colloquy for examples)
In case you were wondering, persistent data goes into the user's home directory
under a directory called Library. It is supposed to get built the first time
an application runs.
-a
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