On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Joshua Penix wrote:
What Stewart ran into was the OS X-specific installer, which was built with the purpose of installing system-wide on a Mac OS X machine. To do that it requests root. It's not OOo's fault but instead the creators of the OS X installer for not building in the user-only installation option.
True. But from the developers themselves:
----- Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 10:25 PM on 01-28-2005 ----- + Neo/J uses the OOo multi-user installation process. Hence, the need + for administrator privileges to install.
The OOo single-user
+ installation process has not been implemented in Neo/J (many pieces of
+ the install are different) and I have no plans to do so in the near
+ future due to no available free time so I am closing this as "won't fix".
The issue is that the single user and multi-user installs in OOo are
significantly different. And I can certainly understand why the NeoOffice
folks have decided to support the one that gets everybody running while
not bothering with the one that is of limited scope given the amount of
other work they have.
Now, that still doesn't explain why OOo always needs root for a multi-user
install rather than requesting it only when it needs it.
-a
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