Upstream packages v.s. Fedora packages

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Oct 11 01:51:51 UTC 2013


On 10/10/2013 4:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 10/10/13 21:27, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> I download and install LibreOffice directly from their site and there is
>>> no failure.  The installed packages from Fedora exhibit the failure.
>>> Since I'm not a packager/maintainer I'd like to understand how could that
>>> happen?
>> Upstream's kde integration... is different/lacking (last I looked, it still
>> built against deprecated kde3 stuff).
>
> I see....  Does that then imply the problem is, or has been, introduced by the packaging of LibreOffice for Fedora?

Yes.  Fedora packages will be using different libraries as well - 
upstream probably bundles a bunch of stuff.


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