Am Mo, den 12.04.2004 schrieb Miloslav Trmac um 17:15: > Hello, > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:31:55AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: [...] > > > It may well be from a distribution standpoint that DicOOo is the best > > way to go since it empowers users to install only what they need, and > > makes it easily available. However, it has a few drawbacks (none fatal > > I think): its basically a big macro, some people are uneasy about that, > > and there is also no guarantee how long the information it uses will be > > up online. > * It requires additional manual action after installation (consider kickstart) > Post-install scripts would probably not be able to use DicOOo, so they would > have to mostly reimplement the language RPMs > * It does not collaborate with the RPM package database > * <paranoid>Users might download a malicious "dicOOo" script from something > that looks like a legitimate openoffice.org mirror</paranoid> ++ on these points. I used DicOOo two or there times and was not very comfortable with it... > > Looking forward as the Fedora Core / Red Hat maintainer of the OOo > > packages, what do people think I should do? > Given all the above (and the fact that Czech was included in the main > package in previous releases :) I'd prefer language packages (we do have > about 400 MB left on the fourth CD, after all), but I understand > that's additional work to be done. What about delivering the "widespread" languages as rpm with Fedora Core and put the other in fedora-extras? CU thl
