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Bug 203428 - app-emulation/crossover-office-bin & app-emulation/crossover-office-pro-bin : outdated description
Summary: app-emulation/crossover-office-bin & app-emulation/crossover-office-pro-bin :...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Wine Maintainers
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Reported: 2007-12-27 09:32 UTC by George Retsinas
Modified: 2007-12-28 12:55 UTC (History)
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Description George Retsinas 2007-12-27 09:32:23 UTC
app-emulation/crossover-office-bin & app-emulation/crossover-office-pro-bin have misleading descriptions. The description for both of them is "specialized version of wine for MS Office" . However, this is not true.Crossover is based on Wine and is dedicated to install a (constantly increasing) number of windows software and games. As its site states:
"CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing a Windows application simple and fast. Once installed, your application integrate seamlessly with your Gnome or KDE environment. Just click and run your application, exactly as you would in Windows, but with the full freedom of Linux.

CrossOver Linux lets you use many Windows plugins directly from your Linux browser. Plugins work on any x86 based Linux distribution and will integrate with most browsers including Firefox 1.x, Netscape 6.x, Konqueror, Mozilla, and Opera. CrossOver also integrates with Gnome and KDE to let you transparently open any Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. But even better, you can open these attachment types directly from any mail client."

By the way, it is not even called crossover office anymore (since version 6) but crossover linux.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 George Retsinas 2007-12-27 09:39:27 UTC
So, don't you think these two ebuilds need some care?
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-12-27 21:29:04 UTC
the DESCRIPTION dates back to when crossover was designed for making MS Office stuff run nicely.  they have since expanded their horizons.
Comment 3 George Retsinas 2007-12-27 22:41:15 UTC
Yes, I know that, but don't you think that this (its description) should change? And maybe its name too? Why you marked it fixed?....
Comment 5 George Retsinas 2007-12-28 00:22:17 UTC
Well he didn't pointed out he fixed it. How am I supposed to understand it? Also, how about the name change?
> Because it *is* FIXED.
> 
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/crossover-office-bin/crossover-office-bin-6.2.0.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
> 

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-12-28 12:55:15 UTC
i wouldnt have closed the bug as "FIXED" if i didnt fix it

i would have marked it as "WONTFIX" or "INVALID" if i wasnt going to make any changes