Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Ed Greshko]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> No-one is answering the question.  Forget the OpenOffice fixation.  The 
> question is 'How do we know which of Fedora's packages have been altered in 
> this way?'  OpenOffice would be one, but there are others.  Totem comes to 
> mind, and I'd guess that there are lots more.  As Les remarked, it could be 
> indicated in the package name.

The answer is, you don't know unless the maintainer has noted the "local"
changes made.

> As for how it would help, we could then decide for ourselves whether we need 
> to go to the source and build our own packages.

Sounds like a RFE (Request For Enhancement).  Time to file one?