https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44463
Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |WONTFIX
--- Comment #11 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> ---
Charles' description in comment 0 is crystal clear, and great.
However, I'm afraid, there's nothing we can do about it. If Windows Installer
was told to modify the registry during installation, we have only two choices:
either restore the original values on uninstallation *unconditionally*, or
leave the modifications on uninstallation *unconditionally*.
The second is not an option. We can't keep associations to LibreOffice, when we
uninstall LibreOffice. Since there is no logic in Windows Installer, that would
allow to only remove added/modified registry entries in certain cases, we have
to opt to #1.
In the end, it is a usual mess, when two installed programs compete for the
same associations. At some point, MS made even greater mess, associating ODF
files to MS Office apps unconditionally, and even made sure to re-associate on
every app start; for some time, that made co-existence of the two suites on the
same system unbearable.
See MSI Registry Table documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/registry-table
I close this WONTFIX : the issue is real, understood, but it won't be fixed
because of the specifics of the installer technology that is used. Please feel
free to reopen, though, if you have a good suggestion how to fix this - of
course, I might well be wrong thinking it's impossible.
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