Including OO templates in fc4

Ian Laurenson hillview at paradise.net.nz
Mon Mar 7 22:55:49 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:59, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 08 mars 2005 à 10:32 +1300, Ian Laurenson a écrit :
> 
> > Is there a way that users can have the best of both worlds? For those
> > that are using an RPM based system that they can use both RPM based
> > OpenOffice.org extensions or the OpenOffice.org UNO package installer
> > and that the appropriate registrations are occurring as required for
> > both systems.
> 
> And there you are deeply wrong. Anyone will rpm or deb experience will
> tell you mixed installations are a great way to go mad after a while.
> 
> > Some constructive discussion on how an RPM based system can work well
> > for all OpenOffice.org users would be great! Even better would be if
> > through communication a system can be found that will work not only for
> > OpenOffice.org but also for those other "annoyances" such as Firefox.
> 
> I'm sorry you take it like this.
> 
> All I can say is, if you think what I wrote is over the line, well
> that's nothing compared to what will be headed your way the day the
> auto-download stuff starts being promoted for Linux distributions.
> 
> I tried to give you a friendly warning. Non native packaging is not a
> maybe but a never here. Native packages are in the end 99% of what's a
> distribution is about. But since you insist, I'll let you discover it by
> yourself. I have no more wish than anyone else to be caught in the
> middle of a crossfire I didn't started.

We seem to be at cross purposes. I am trying to bounce ideas to find a
workable solution but it would appear that my tone is too
confrontational.
My sincerest apologies - Ian Laurenson




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