| Art Alexion on 2 Apr 2007 16:22:17 -0000 |
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On Sunday 01 April 2007 21:56, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > If you absolutely have to have updated deb packages before they are > packaged for your distro, it is a much better idea to take the source deb > from the current release, replace the orig.tar.gz, and bump the version. > Using packages, especially ones as complex as OOo, that aren't packaged > properly is playing russian roulette with your machine. I appreciate the warning and the potential danger, but I have been doing this with OOo for 4 updates now without a problem. Everything -- except the system menus for KDE and Gnome -- is installed in /opt so it won't affect the rest of your system. The version numbers that I used are the same as the upstream version for this release. OOo, in particular, tends to have significant bug fixes with these updates. For instance, version 2.0, included with Dapper, couldn't find its templates, effectively disabling the template feature. That was unacceptable for any serious word processing use. Perhaps the solution for packages like OOo is for distros to stop trying to integrate it into /usr and for it always to install in /opt so that users can take advantage of updates without interfering with the /usr tree. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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