Severn Beta2

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 18 August 2003 07:32, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
> More than OOo 1.1 I am interested in seeing the Ximian-ized OOo
> (except _please_ change the default back to .sxw and not .doc!!).
>
> It's also a bit convenient having every release of redhat require me
> to uninstall ximian packages.  I think at this point, redhat should
> assume that a large percentage of users use ximian, and allow to
> upgrade from their packages.

A) why make that assumption?  The majority of users I deal with don't 
use Ximian packages.

B) how would Red Hat "allow" such upgrades when they have no control 
over what packages users may be upgrading from?  The problem is that 
Ximian used to (still does?) replace many core packages that cause 
problems when trying to upgrade from ximian packages to Red Hat 
packages.  One or the other would break, so it was much cleaner to just 
manually remove ximian from the system prior to an upgrade.

Maybe Ximian should put more work into making their software work 
cleanly on Red Hat w/out replacing core packages and causing the 
headache we have now...

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE
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