On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:59, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mardi 08 mars 2005 à 10:32 +1300, Ian Laurenson a écrit : > > > Is there a way that users can have the best of both worlds? For those > > that are using an RPM based system that they can use both RPM based > > OpenOffice.org extensions or the OpenOffice.org UNO package installer > > and that the appropriate registrations are occurring as required for > > both systems. > > And there you are deeply wrong. Anyone will rpm or deb experience will > tell you mixed installations are a great way to go mad after a while. > > > Some constructive discussion on how an RPM based system can work well > > for all OpenOffice.org users would be great! Even better would be if > > through communication a system can be found that will work not only for > > OpenOffice.org but also for those other "annoyances" such as Firefox. > > I'm sorry you take it like this. > > All I can say is, if you think what I wrote is over the line, well > that's nothing compared to what will be headed your way the day the > auto-download stuff starts being promoted for Linux distributions. > > I tried to give you a friendly warning. Non native packaging is not a > maybe but a never here. Native packages are in the end 99% of what's a > distribution is about. But since you insist, I'll let you discover it by > yourself. I have no more wish than anyone else to be caught in the > middle of a crossfire I didn't started. We seem to be at cross purposes. I am trying to bounce ideas to find a workable solution but it would appear that my tone is too confrontational. My sincerest apologies - Ian Laurenson
