Allegedly, on or about 07 February 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: > I mean even if it isn't in the repos.....couldn't one just go to the > actual LibreOffice web-site and download it for themselves? Or SHOULD > I wait for it to be added to a repo? I've always wondered about > this.... You can, but... Unless their download is a YUM repo, so that future updates will be pulled in with a general "yum update," you're going to have to do manual updates for every program that you manually downloaded. This turns the convenient upgrading process that Fedora uses into the mess that Windows is. You can also miss out on updates, on the Fedora repo version, that contains fixes pertaining to Fedora, that probably aren't put into the program updates from the external source. Unless their download is designed for the release of Fedora that you're using, there's a risk that it's not compatible, or that you'll have "fun" sorting out extra file dependencies to get it to run. Depending on the source of the program you're installing externally, it could be dangerous (accidentally or deliberately). It's less likely to have had the vetting that programs submitted to the Fedora repos have. Any problems that you have with externally sourced programs will need resolving with that external source. You're less likely to find help on this list about it. Those are just a few of the gotchas that I can think of, off the top of my head. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 17:40:57 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
