On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:36:35AM -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > it ships own copies of dozens of standard 3rd-party packages, > > "standard" from the viewpoint of up-to-date Linux distros, that is. Don't > forget that LibreOffice is supposed to run also on not-so-up-to-date Linux > installations. > > And of course, various other Unixes too (although I don't know if we have any > active builders/packagers except for BSDs), on which one can be even les sure > that there are up-to-date "standard" 3rd-party packages available.
Up-to-date software can also be used on old Unixes / Linux systems without too much pain. In some of my previous jobs, I had to manage software installations for systems running such things as OSF/1, AIX, Solaris/Sparc, Irix, etc... There are all sorts of solutions: - using the vendor framework (if they still care/are alive) - installation by hand (configure / make / make install) - lightweight management with tools such as stow: http://unmaintainable.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/package-management-using-stow/ - using a third-party framework. Two of them come to mind: - OpenPKG http://www.openpkg.org/ - pkgsrc http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html#platforms IMHO, there's no reason to include old versions of third-party packages in LibreOffice proper. In addition to all the included junk, I remember OpenOffice needing a special-purpose version of gcc to be compiled. Should we go the same path again ? -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
