BrOffice.org in Fedora 10
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Aug 11 21:12:42 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:59 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:56 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:37 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > >>
> > > > With my IANAL hat on, I don't see how these packages do anything to
> > > > solve the problem, though.
> > > >
> > > > User in Brazil takes Fedora DVD, does install with the office group,
> > > > they get OpenOffice. Even if comps also specifies to install broffice
> > > > as well. And so then, they have two things in their menus, etc. As do
> > > > all users who may not be in Brazil but care about having support for
> > > > users who speak Brazilian Portuguese.
> > >
> > > Though, if we had localized installation livecd images...
> >
> > Or if we didn't have openoffice.org and just had abiword and gnumeric.
> > Oh wait, that's what we do.
> >
> > And in either case, the packages would still be on the DVD that is one
> > of our primary distribution methods and still no better.
> If the problem is only in the user-visible branding, then a better
> solution would be to split out some parts (like the splash screen, data
> for the about dialog, etc) in some separate package, and have
> locale-dependent versions of that.
Except that locale is "displayed language", not "where the system is
running". Plenty of people run in English even in non-English speaking
countries. And so what should happen there?
> Of course, that doesn't help if the package name itself is a problem...
Indeed. :-/ This is just overall a pretty thorny problem ...
Jeremy
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