https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105572
--- Comment #6 from [email protected] ---
Dear John.
You are asserting that the threatening message is only directed to grant
programs integrity but, sorry, since you are the head of PortableApps.com your
answer can't be accepted as it comes from a naive user but as a real
mystification of reality.
Follow my points.
1) If you really want to check an installation integrity, you have to check the
installation integrity and not something else that could lead to a false
positive. In fact if I install Libre Office Portable "regularly" with its own
PAF installer, and then add one of the banned files, the alert appears the
same. The installation is perfectly regular but you are testing only the
third-party file existence. And you did this not only the first time, but every
time. Hence you are not checking the installation integrity but something else.
2) If you really take care of the programs integrity only, why don't you
re-enable the silence install option that was banned years ago? Currently the
PAF silent install feature, that is needed for launchers/updaters such as
SyMenu and Lupo, is available only for PortableApps.com launcher and this is a
protection typical of a different world than the freeware one. SyMenu and Lupo
are forced to use the raw extraction method because you deliberately don't
allow third-party to follow the right way.
These above are facts and now let's go with my speculation.
A) All your implementations in these directions demonstrate that you don't want
that your PAF format is used as freely and openly as you assert, but only with
the PortableApps.com launcher/updater. In other words you are creating a closed
universe stating that is universally opened.
B) PortableApps.com is using its PAF format to crash the other launchers
instead of outmatch them with quality, features, user care, community. This is
a behavior that must be known by all the freeware communities involved starting
from the Libre Office one and following, because it's an anomaly in our pure
and ideal freeware world.
C) Why don't you take this as a constructive and collaborative way to improve
all the portable launcher platforms? The war against the platforms will kill
the portability world.
So the challenge here is: open the silent install to grant the same right to
every launcher/updater at the same condition granted to PortableApps.com
launcher. In this way every launcher won't be forced to install the PAF
software in the wrong way.
Gianluca
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