On Sat, 9 May 2009 20:05:50 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009 11:58:29 +1000 > Keith Bates <[email protected]> dijo: > > > I uninstalled the "official" Ubuntu 9.04 version because it has a > > bug that prevents it from accessing OO databases. Other distros > > that ship with the non-standard version have the same issue. > > > > I'm back to the standard OOo downloaded from the OOo web-site. > > It's tempting to do that, but if I do Update Manager will constantly > give me reminders that there are upgrades available. > Surely if you remove it using Synaptic and install the debs using dpkg there won't be a problem. I've just looked at my package list and the Ubuntu packages are openoffice.org-<module> but the versions from OOo are openoffice.org3-<module>. There should not be any need for Update Manager to want me to update packages that I haven't got installed. > More important, last time I did that was back in the days of Gutsy. > The version that came with Gutsy had a bug that caused drag and drop > of text not to work. It was an obscure bug that affected only a > hundred people worldwide, as far as I could tell. I installed the OOo > version, and the bug remained. And the OOo version had even more bugs > that the Ubuntuized version did not. > > In your case there is good reason to switch. I rarely need to access > databases, so I have not been bitten by that particular bug. > > Much is made on this list of how evil the distroized versions of OOo > are. There is an assumption that if you are experiencing a bug it must > be the fault of <insert distro name here>, because surely if you used > the official OOo version you would have no problems. But I'm here to > tell you that my experience is quite different. Sometimes the > distroized version does introduce bugs that are not in the OOo > version. But the opposite is equally true. And more important, unlike > you, I have yet to find that the OOo version fixes any bugs in the > distroized version. I was going to stick with the "distroized" version but the bug was important to me... I see pluses and minuses either way. The distro versions often contain extra features but there is always the possibility that the extra features or other tweaking has introduced extra problems that aren't picked up due to the smaller testing base. -- God bless you, Keith Bates www.new-life.org.au If you don't have a reason to live JESUS IS THE ANSWER! Ask him into your life today... He really does make a difference --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
