On Apr 6, 2005 1:47 PM, Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, if they can be made parallel-installable I'm not as sure that the > case is so clear-cut? (With "OpenOffice 2.0 <blah>" menu items etc. so > those don't conflict either.) Not that I've looked into what would be > needed to do this... parallel installable AND updatable cleanly to fc4... thats a neat trick. Here's the deal.. Extras has to have an upgrade path to future release of Core. Since FC4 is going to have openoffice 4 already, you'll have to be a very clever monkey to make that upgrade from fc3 to fc4 work well for anyone using your fc3 oo.o2 dead-end parallel installable package. Maintaining parallel installable packages that essential backport progress inside Core is somewhat wasteful and counterproductive in terms of long-term benefit to the project. Its a very simple premise.. if the package has no clear future or place in the next release cycle its probably not worth the effort to produce it. It's one thing for someone in the community to step up and provide an i386 kernel in Extras and commit to maintaining that kernel for multiple release cycles. Its quite another to build something like OO.o2 for fc3 that is only going to be useful in the fc3 lifetime, with no future maintainership envisioned because it duplicated work already being done for fc4 and beyond. -jef
