____/ Linonut on Sunday 14 September 2008 14:27 : \____
> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In article <1837585.e2cNdtANZD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
>>> | # 2>&1
>>> | |
>>> | grep mono
>>> | libmono.so.0 is needed by
>>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>>> | mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
>>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>>> | mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
>>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-common-sense-by-man
>>
>> If you read the author's remarks in the comments there, they are
>> interesting. He would have a similar objection if OO required Perl, or
>> Python, or pretty much anything else (including QT or GTK+). He seems
>> to think it should be a pure C or C++ program, using no libraries other
>> than the lowest level system libraries and the lowest level X libraries.
>
> In any case, if you apply ldd to every component in Debian's install of
> openoffice, in /usr/lib/openoffice/program, there aren't any
> dependencies on a mono library.
>
> While no where near conclusive (there are openoffice gnome and evolution
> debs in my /var/cache/apt/archives that need to be examined), it looks
> more like a packaging mistake.
>
> Anyway, Tim, you may be mischaracterizing his opinion:
>
> So, in order to use a future OpenOffice.org 5.0, we should prepare to
> be REQUIRED to have installed on our distro of choice: Qt3, Qt4, Qt5,
> GTK+ 2.x, GTK+ 3.0, Mono, Perl, Awk, Python, LISP, CAML, Pike, Lua,
> FOX Toolkit, ncurses, and 5,764 libraries and system utilities. Just
> to be able to use an office suite. Because, you know, this is
> progress, so why should this be a problem?
It's a packaging mistake and Mandriva is now aware of this.
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/13/microsoft-admitted-mono-trap/
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