[arch-dev-public] go-openoffice to testing/extra

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Fri May 1 10:25:26 EDT 2009


Am Sat, 02 May 2009 00:09:01 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:

> Andreas Radke wrote:
> > pkg moved to extra.
> >
> > Any idea how to handle the langpacks until we get splitted packages?
> >
> > 1) use symlinks from the vanilla langpacks to the go-oo location.
> > needs updates on the langpacks for every go-oo update what may
> > annoy people using only the vanilla OOo.
> >   
> 
> I assume this is because of the go-oo directory in /usr/lib has the 
> pkgver in it.  Can you not just do a sed or two so that is 
> /usr/lib/go-openoffice?
> 
> Or if I am way off, can you explain the problem in more detail.
> 
> Allan
> 

This is wanted. It allows you to install several versions along each
other. Like we do now in openoffice-base{,beta,devel). It would be a
mess to sed this out. It's a wanted upstream feature and one of the
go-oo improvements.

-Andy


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