On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:15 +0200, Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: > Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Ambrogio: > > Il giorno lun, 03/07/2006 alle 11.34 +0200, Henry Ritzlmayr ha scritto: > > > Why don´t you use the RPMs provided by openoffice.org? > > > RPMs for Fedora are ripped on certain functionality (IP isues). > > > I am using the upstream RPMs for a while - and they work like a charm. > > I don't understand. > > I'm already using OpenOffice from openoffice.org (2.0.1 adn 2.0.2), but > > everytime yum tell me that openoffice should be upgraded. > > I agree on this one - this is the only drawback here. > > > > > This is why I ask about availability of OpenOffice 2.0.3 from fedora > > repos. > > > > But what apropos the issues (IP issues?!?!?!) > > This has been discussed several times here and on many other places. > Even on bug-reports. > > Short version: openoffice.org uses some code where redhat thinks that > this code might be a violation on some others IP - so they remove the > code (or parts of it). I have never seen or heard about a statement > where they explain in detail how and why they think it is that way. But > this is not a big problem - there are other RPMs out there > (openoffice.org). Since my google query voodoo didn't turn up anything, can you please shed some light on which code or functionality has been removed from the FC OO.org rpms compared to the ones form the OO.org website. Thanks and regards, Patrick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
