Bug 32936 – openoffice-ximian installation dirs

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description george 2003-11-07 01:54:19 UTC]

I'm concerned by the installation directories chosen for openoffice-ximian.  My problem is that all upgrades I've done so far - both using binaries from OO.o and using gentoo ebuilds - have made me redo all of my preference settings because the ~/.openoffice dir has either been ignored when it has a version number in it, or had to be deleted.

As far as I can tell from struggling around the OO.o site, upgrades of network installations aren't supported yet but I'm assuming that they will be coming soon now that they have done single user upgrades.

Given that it sounds like 2.0 will use gtk natively, I'm guessing that I may not want to use a ximian version once that is released so - finally the point - if the installation uses "Ximian-OpenOffice" instead of "OpenOffice.org", I would expect that future upgrades won't happen even if OO.o have added this functionality.  It would be a real tragedy if upgrades were prevented just by a choice of name.

Sorry for the ramble and I hope this makes sense.

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-11-07 11:45:20 UTC]

First 2.0 will not use gtk+ in any way. Second, openoffice-ximian does not
use gtk+ either. Third openoffice-ximian does add various features to openoffice
making it a distinctively different product. Fourth, network installation
upgrades are unsupported and the current installation system is awkward to
say the least. Fifth, the ximian variant is for now unsupported (and masked).
Sixth, at the moment that the installation of openoffice becomes more sane
I'll look at upgrade problem again.

[Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-07-25 12:47:27 UTC]

Move deprecated ebuild still being marked as LATER to Fixed.