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+++ b/office/openoffice.org/README
@@ -5,32 +5,36 @@ This script builds a Slackware package from the official binary (RPM's)
distributed by openoffice.org. Everything needed by the application should
be built statically into it, so there aren't any dependencies not satisfied
by a normal installation. A java runtime environment (jre) is suggested by
-openoffice.org, but it is not required.
+openoffice.org, but it is not required (note that jre is part of a standard
+installation of Slackware).
Please don't file bug reports relating to the fact that the resulting package
doesn't open MS Office files by default. Default applications to open specific
file types is a per-user setting, and and installing some application should
not change it. See these two links for more info:
- http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo_2dspec
- http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmime_2dactions_2dspec
+ http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec
+ http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/mime-actions-spec
Please don't file reports about us not using the the 'slackware-menus' package
included in the desktop-integration/ directory. We don't use that package for
the following reasons:
- 1. The package installs to /opt/openoffice.org2.2, but then a symlink is
- created in /etc to that same directory (/etc/openoffice.org2.2).
+ 1. The package installs to /opt/openoffice.org2.4, but then a symlink is
+ created in /etc to that same directory (/etc/openoffice.org2.4).
This is not expected behavior from Slackware packages - we don't typically
put binary files in /etc, and we certainly don't have entire software
- packages installed there - that will wreak havoc on anyone who does a
- regular backup of the entire /etc directory.
+ packages installed there.
2. It installs the icons to /opt/kde/share/icons instead of /usr/share/icons.
- This is fine if you're running kde, but for those people who use gnome,
- it's not. There's no good reason not to put them in /usr/share/icons or
- /usr/share/pixmaps.
+ This is fine if you're running kde on Slackware 11.0 or earlier, but for
+ those people who use gnome or anything on Slackware 12.0 or later, it's
+ a Bad Thing. The generic freedesktop menu integration package is better
+ in that respect, as it puts everything in /usr/share/icons/
3. The only other thing the 'slackware-menus' package does is set up the
symlinks for the *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications, and it's done
- with them linked from /etc/openoffice.org2.2... Since we don't want the
+ with them linked from /etc/openoffice.org2.4... Since we don't want the
link to /etc at all, this is useless to us.
Be sure to look at the script for some optional things you can do when building
(disable the Java loader and add the Optimization Solver).
+
+NOTE: DO NOT use OpenOffice.org's built-in updater to update after installing
+ with this script.