Bug 263730

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-bin: "register never" useless on reinstall
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	pille <pille+bugs.gentoo.org>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Low
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description pille 2009-03-25 14:39:05 UTC

using openoffice for the first time you will be prompted for your full name and a registration. however there's the possibility to register never, which i prefer.

whenever you reinstall openoffice, because of an minor update or even a change in use flags, you will be prompted again.

this behaviour bothers me. as openoffice installs several dot-directories in your home (one for each major-version) it's ok to ask again after upgrading to another major-version.

Comment 1 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-27 22:51:48 UTC

I guess you are talking about openoffice-bin and not openoffice, as the later never asks you about registration.

Besides that: openoffice-bin uses the upstream binaries and asking for registration is the way Sun wants it, there is no possibility at all for us to change this

Comment 2 pille 2009-03-28 20:23:12 UTC

ahh, thanks for that info!