On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile
<arie...@apache.org>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 06:00:35PM -0500, Rob Weir wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
> > <orwittm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > as we had changed our 'project name' from "OpenOffice.org" to "Apache
> > > OpenOffice" it makes sense to reflect this change also in our source
> and the
> > > product based on our source.
> > > We had already made some basic and limited renaming - start center,
> splash
> > > screen, ... -, but it is not complete.
> > >
> >
> > A question: Will this renaming effort also change library/modules
> > names at a lower level, so we can more cleanly install as an
> > independent app where LibreOffice has hijacked the old names?
>
> The problem with /usr/bin/soffice is not been solved by this change.
>
I truly wish there was some recourse we could take about this particular
issue. how to "unlink soffice from LO is covered in the installation
instructions, but essentially highjacking a binary this way seems a bit of
a malware approach to me.
> Other problems like LO obsoleting OOo packages will go away with the
> name change because it implies a package name change (something we
> should also do is remove the version from the package name, this is
> causing the bug currently that version 3.4 didn't remove previous
> versions when installed).
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Ariel Constenla-Haile
> La Plata, Argentina
>
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