Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Res]

On Tue, April 10, 2007 9:50 am, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> I just learned that Fedora stripped some functionality from
> OOo.  That really sucks because the functionality they
> stripped I needed on one of my projects. That caused the
> project to take much longer than it should have.
>
> I know about the mp3 stuff.
>
> What other software has stripped functionality? Is there a
> list of the software Fedora has stripped down?
>
> I think the need to learn how to roll my own is getting much
> greater to the point I am going to force myself to learn
> the hard stuff.  I have procrastinated on a lot of things
> but not any more.
>

Just grab a copy off the openoffice.org website, there is a tar file there
with a bunch of RPM's in it you can just remove fedoras version and use
theirs, OOo's will always be much more current then fedoras anyway, so
your better off 2.2 is current,



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Res