Re: LibO Install/Update ( was [tdf-discuss] Automatic Updates)

 On 08/10/10 02:53 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2010-10-08 16:47, RGB ES a écrit :
> > > Would this be a security headache?
> > > Could this work for the average user?
> > > Does this not seem a convenience for the end-user community at large?
> > >
> > > Others could mirror this repository, but this would be the "upstream 
> > > source" for both users/distributions.
> > > Are there other factors I'm missing?
> > AFAIK, go-oo people maintained a yum repository. So it is possible.
>
> From a marketing point of view, this would be in LibO's interest as 
> the update to LibO would then be a no brainer even from the user point 
> of view. Almost a form of "pushing" the LibO updates/upgrades through 
> without having to go through distro packaging.
>
> In this case, then, it would be a case of having a dedicated 
> dev-packager for each flavour of packaging system used by the distros.
Marc,
That sums it up rather nicely.  ;)

I had not heard of Go-OO ( http://go-oo.org ) before until this 
discussion thread.
Visiting their page, it seems like they have the kind of distribution 
model that we could leverage.

Scott

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