On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:26:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 03:12, Chris Halls wrote: > > This is a very large package with many twists and turns to it. We can't get > > it all running in one go - the .debs are up there to save people having to > > do the upstream install themselves, but the .deb does not yet fix many of > > the problems caused by upstream. > > Are all/most of the difficulties caused by the fact that the > pre-compiled binaries straight from www.openoffice.org expect > to install under ~ ?
No, just some :)
These problems come to mind immediately:
- Own directory structure when doing a systemwide install
- Various shared library versioning problems (e.g. libodbc)
- Expects to be running on SuSE: it tries to put KDE stuff in ~/.kde2
- Font cache problems and other font issues
- Hardcoded variables and paths in various places
- Non-free parts such as libgpc, java, GIF creation
- Doesn't always work under Debian Gnome
- Hangs complete machine on S3 Savage with Xfree 4.1 by default
- No systemwide menus/mailcap (John M Cooper has been working on this for
us)
- Can't add/remove compenents from a systemwide install just by
adding/removing files
- Own localisation system with quirks
There are probably more...
Chris
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