On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 14:19:28 PM +0200, Joerg Barfurth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> BTW: The Linux world is a particularly difficult target for this > topic. It is all nice and well to say every installable piece of > software must be packaged. But when you choose some form of package > someone feels left out. Nobody (not me anyway) asked to use _one_ form of package. What is important is make sure that everything is always made available online in "source" form, that the distributors can pick and package their way for automatic installation and upgrade. *Without* extra work like dissecting a self-installing .sxw file to get the macro it wants to install by itself. Me, I don't care if that method lives or dies, as long as it's easy for any Gnu/Linux distribution to _also_ test and offer native packages. Now, since this discussion is, at least partly, made on indirect reports of what Linux packagers love or hate, what if the interested OO.o developers talk *directly* with them? If it helps, I can try to mediate/organize it in the form of an email interview to be published somewhere online, but what matters is that it happens. What do you think? Ciao, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. -- Ayn Rand, "For the New Intellectual" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]