BrOffice.org in Fedora 10

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Aug 11 20:28:35 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 22:15 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:53 -0300, Igor Pires Soares wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I can see them in rawhide, I just checked a moment ago.
> >> >
> >> > Yep, they are in rawhide but not in the installation media, at least for
> >> > F10 Alpha.
> >>
> >> Ah, I see, they are subpackages of the openoffice.org source package.
> >> Odd.
> >>
> >> Ideally these packages would be added as conditionals to the appropriate
> >> language support groups, and then they'll be pulled in when said groups
> >> are requested.
> >
> > Umm, except they're different executables.  What's the actual expected
> > behavior if you have both broffice.org-writer and openoffice.org-writer
> > installed?
> >
> > This looks seriously weird to me
> 
> aren't there different desktop files?

Yes, but both are going to show up in all locales if you have both
installed.  And two different apps associated with mime-types, etc.

What is the actual functional difference that's trying to be achieved
here?

Jeremy




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