Marcela Mašláňová (mmasl...@redhat.com) said: > >You're using a Mac now, so good luck. > > > >But I'm pretty sure that software collections would not have helped > >you to upgrade Libreoffice. Which, by the way, is possible without > >upgrading everything: just compile the later SRPMs. In other words, > >create your own backports repository, and find a group of people who > >have the same problem to share the security and maintenance burden > >around. > > > >Rich. > > > In that case he might use gentoo ;-) On the other hand create a > collection for LibreOffice and support it would be a lot of work.
I would suspect, actually, that upgrading to a later LibreOffice is fairly simple on a 'stable' release, if it was built for that release. The problem comes when the only newer LibreOffice is built for the next Fedora release, so it's linked against newer libicu/boost/clucene/etc/etc that's only available in that later Fedora release, even though it doesn't specifically *require* those newer library versions. Of course, just doing an update for an older release breaks those who want the older release to maintain stability at all costs. So the LibreOffice case could be fixed by merely defining what's inside the always-stable set vs. what's outside it and can be updated more frequently (and convincing the maintainer to do so with LibreOffice.) Bill -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
