Many good points, all of which should be explored. If a distro has enough hands and experience, its likely they will make the installation quite easy for their users.
Is the distro who don't have the hands or the experience to do it that will suffer most. As for the installer itself, options are great, standard install, and customs installs. Shouldn't be too hard to do (I hope). On another note, I've been spreading the word about LO among my users, the overall opinion is very good. The slight improvements in design and appearance have the vast majority switching to LO over OOo and MS Office. Its been well received. Well done to all. Kate Draven On 12/26/10, Sigrid Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > 2010/12/26 Greg Madden <[email protected]>: >> >> >> On Sunday 26 December 2010 12:21:22 pm Andy Brown wrote: >>> On Sun Dec 26 2010 12:42:57 GMT-0800 (PST) Katheryne Draven wrote: > > [...] > >> Maybe the pain felt now is temporary, because LO is a RC and each distro >> has not >> had time to package LO. I prefer my distro to manage my packages for me. >> Having >> a package manager be aware of installed apps, having the system share >> libraries, >> dictionaries/spellchecking, fonts, etc is my preference. > > That's the right way to do it. The package manager of your distro > should know about all the packages you installed. > > But, if you use dpkg (for debian based distros) or rpm (for rpm based > distros) then your package manager will know about the package you > installed. You could test it by installing the deb packages with dpkg > and check then in your software center (assuming that you use ubuntu), > you'll see LibreOffice being listed there. At least, this is true for > me using Mandriva (rpm based). > >> Not sure if the 'one installer to rule them all' fits or does not fit the >> traditional way Linux has been using for package management, rpms, debs, >> tgz etc. >> I am fortunate that Debian has folks packaging LO, thanks for that. > > I am grateful for those folks too, but sometimes I want to install the > "vanilla version" or want to install a developer snapshot, because I > want to write documentation for the upcoming release, so it's not a > good idea to wait until the software is out. It's nice to have > documentation almost as soon as the software is out. ;) > > Sigrid > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
