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OpenOffice.org1.9_m54: RPMS AGAIN? WHY?

 
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Cadu
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:10 pm    Post subject: OpenOffice.org1.9_m54: RPMS AGAIN? WHY? Reply with quote
Oh...

I'm realy realy realy (forever realy) unhappy with OpenOffice.org development team. Realy, realy. Why did you choose RPMs?? Why? I can't see ANY reason to make this realy (forever realy) bad decision. Ok... What can I do? Just post a message in this forum and wait the next development version to see that have stupid RPMs inside the tar.gz package.

Please fix this bug... Sad Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Is there something we can do to bring more attention to this problem? Of course it's not a major problem now with preReleases but I am sure this will change soon. Couldn't someone start a poll in a prominent place (not in a special forum) or something?

Also still unhappy being kept away from testing,

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't think I have posted about this before.

I agree. I cannot express how disappointed and frustrated that I am that they are doing away with their very nice installer program to replace it with an RPM.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree, though I use an RPM-based distro. Maybe the 2.0 installer just isn't ready yet??
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It seems to be a deliberate decision to use RPM rather than their custom installer software.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You're right. I was just reading the 2.0 "Q" product concept document, and it explicitly states:

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The platform independent installation is replaced by the support for standard, platform dependent installation routines - so called native installers - and their native installation packages. These are the Solaris Package (pkg) installation, the Linux RPM package manager (RPM) installation, and the Microsoft Installer (MSI) installation.


The document does say that they will "provide a graphical front-end to guide the user through the installation process of the packages," for Linux and Solaris users.
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