On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:43:26PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 12:31:36 pm Reinhard Gimbel wrote: > > Hello Fred, hello community ! > > > > Satoru Matsumoto wrote / schrieb: > > > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > >> Why hasn't SUSE finally gotten with the program and made OO 2.1 an > > >> upgrade install via Yast, Smart, etc.? > > > > > > You can find newest SUSE-custumized OOo packages under > > > http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenOffice.org/ directory. > > > So, add appropriate(depends on your SUSE version) directory to your YaST > > > or Smart install source. > > > > In other words: There will be no automatic upgrade to a newer version > > (with advanced features) but bug fixes (updates) only. > > > > If you are looking for an upgrade of a certain software you always have > > to add other installation repositories beside the original installation > > repo. > > Correct, but then, that was what I was "digging" at. This is wrong, IMHO. > Newbies coming from MickySoft have NO idea about how to add a repository nor > even why they should have to. Come to think of it........that's a good > point. ;)
Personally I have never seen a reason to upgrade to the latest and greatest OpenOffice on my machines. The old one just works fine for my purposes and for all stuff I can do. And i somehow guess this is true for 99% of all users. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
