alternatives is the wrong technology for end user facing applications.On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:15:43AM +0400, Pavel Alexeev wrote:
> 01.02.2013 00:17, drago01 wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:20 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote:
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> I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be dominant
> and you can't provide both of them on a live image for example.
> LibreOffice was introduced to our live images and we hit target 1GB,
> do you really think it could be useful having a larger image just
> because you want to provide both of the office suites?
>
> The proposal explicitly says that it doesn't envisage including OO on
> any images or in any default install configurations, simply adding it as
> an option in the package repositories.
>
> Which doesn't really need a FESCo approval ... just a package review.
>
> Meantime there one sentence which optionally require changes in LibreOffice
> too: " The /usr/bin/soffice alias is still a problem since (in the Fedora
> packages) it would conflict between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice: it is
> recommended to fix it in the LibreOffice packages too, at least using the
> Alternatives system."
>
> I think it should be approved first if it really required.
Why can't our apache openoffice package rename /usr/bin/soffice?
-Toshio
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Why not LibreOffice? It doesn't make a lot of sense to retain the soffice binary name for LibreOffice anyway. Besides, I think LibreOffice would be more amenable to a permanent binary name change than Apache OpenOffice.
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