BrOffice.org in Fedora 10

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Aug 11 20:47:01 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:37 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > And the only apparent difference I see is that the splash screen says
> > it's "BrOffice" instead of "OpenOffice".
> >
> > What sort of value is this really providing to our userbase?
> 
> Did you see the bug?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=358021
> 
> I don't think they wanted to rename it, but legal issues forced them to.

With my IANAL hat on, I don't see how these packages do anything to
solve the problem, though.

User in Brazil takes Fedora DVD, does install with the office group,
they get OpenOffice.  Even if comps also specifies to install broffice
as well.  And so then, they have two things in their menus, etc.  As do
all users who may not be in Brazil but care about having support for
users who speak Brazilian Portuguese.

There's no "exclude this package if you're using this locale" type of
thing in comps[1].  And even if there were, the media would still have
the package.  So if it's a problem, the problem would still exist.

Jeremy

[1] And how such a thing would even start to work at the yum level, much
less the level of any sort of UI makes my head hurt




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