[Open Office] Keep 2.0 prefix for OOo-2.1?
Petr Mladek
pmladek at suse.cz
Fri Jan 5 09:05:36 EST 2007
Hi,
the upstream changed the install prefix for OOo-2.1:
/opt/openoffice.org2.0 -> /opt/openoffice.org2.1
It has already used the minor-version-independent prefix for the user
configuration:
~/.openoffice.org2
We could do something similar in ooo-build:
/usr/lib/ooo-2.0 -> /usr/lib/ooo2
/usr/share/ooo-2.0 -> /usr/share/ooo2
/usr/include/ooo-2.0 -> /usr/include/ooo2
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/mono-ooo-2.0.pc -> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mono-ooo2.pc
~/.ooo-2.0 -> ~/.ooo2
Though, I vote to keep the 2.0 paths because:
1. If we switch to ~/.ooo2, users would "lost" their older setting.
2. If we keep ~/.ooo-2.0 and change only other prefixes, it would be
inconsistent.
3. We could add a symlink ~/.ooo2 -> ~/.ooo-2.0 from the program/soffice
wrapper but I do not like this hack.
4. The prefix change would be used to create FHS-compatible package (config
files below /etc, arch independent files below /usr/share, ...). This change
is not easy and I do not have time to work on it now. Note that it must be
done together with the prefix change because RPM does not allow to replace a
directory with a compat symlink.
5. The wrappers ooffice, oowriter... are already version-independent. The
other paths are hidden to the normal users, so they are less important.
What do you think?
Does anybody complain if we keep the 2.0 paths as they are?
Best Regards,
Petr
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