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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Why does Mageia's Libreoffice obsolete OOo ?</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Fri Sep 2 03:06:53 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>I realise that many might think of LibreOffice as being nothing more
that a more recent version of OpenOffice, but upstream LibreOffice
package does not touch OpenOffice.
It can be legitimate for a user to want both LibreOffice and OpenOffice
installed at the same time.
Which is my case. (To overcome a missing feature, which having both
running at the same time partially solves.)
Recently I installed Mageia's package of LibreOffice (to replace the
upstream package of the same version I had already installed, only to
get rid of a persistant update suggestion),
and it attempted to uninstall OpenOffice.
(Only partially succeeding, probably since I had the official package,
and not mdv's package installed. I had to reinstall Openoffice to make
it work properly.)
So I think we should remove "Obsoletes: openoffice.org" from the
Libreoffice spec (line 190 of the latest spec in cauldron), to avoid
this problem.
If someone has Openoffice installed and wants to uninstall it, they can
always do so explicitly.
This brings up an important point. If there is a new application which
provides the same function as an existing application, but no conflict
exists between the 2 applications, why should we obsolete the existing
application.
I have seen this on other occasions, such as between Mozilla Seamonkey
and Iceape.
But at the same time, we don't do that for text editors. (e.g. gedit,
geany, and medit, all based on gtk+ -- which can similarly all be used
at the same time.)
I think we should have a policy to _not_ obsolete applications if there
are no real conflicts between them.
I'm not suggesting this for libraries, but for applications, especially
gui applications.
To do otherwise is to unnecessarily impose our views of what users
should be permitted to install and use.
--
André
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