Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

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On Monday 09 April 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 4/9/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net 
<linuxmaillists at charter.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 April 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > On 4/9/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net
> >
> > <linuxmaillists at charter.net> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 09 April 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > > On 4/9/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net
> > > >
> > > > <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.
> > > > >
> > > > > What stuff is that?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Fedora Core 6 and proud
> > > >
> > > > The drag copy function that will auto-increment the
> > > > data in the cell whether it is text or numbers.
> > > >
> > > > Type January or Monday or something like this
> > > > b001c001v001 in the cell and then drag.  This
> > > > doesn't work with the Fedora version.
> > >
> > > I tried it on Fedora Core 6, it almost worked, but
> > > wanted and end value, and didn't accept Friday. Could
> > > it just be, as the Fedora version is 2.0?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Fedora Core 6 and proud
> >
> > No it has something to do with the function not being
> > open source or something like that. It was on another
> > mailing list. It was also there in OOo 1.1.2 on Knoppix
> > 3.6 which I just tested from the Live CD.
>
> Would be nice if you provide a link. I'm unsure as to
> what to google for.

I just downloaded and installed a copy from the 
openoffice.org site and the function that I have described 
is there and works very clean.  You type something that has 
a pattern into one cell grab the bottom right corner drag 
down or to the right and the pattern gets dumped into the 
cells.  No dialog box, no formula, nothing complicated, it 
just works.

I don't know what code is in the original package from OOo 
that the Fedora/RH team thinks is questionable.  I just 
know it works.  I would have like to have known about it 
several months ago.  A project I was working on would have 
been a lot easier and faster to do with that functionality 
was in the Fedora version.  I do know now and from now on I 
will not install the Fedora version, I will install the 
original version from OOo.

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