On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hi Jeff. > > 2011/3/29 Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima < > > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > Well, any script that tries to be cross-distro like that is going to be > > ugly > > - such is the way of the world > > > > > > > > Maybe someone could read it and improve the code. > > > > > > > I expect that it could be reworked to instantiate an API, so that > > distro-specific scripts could be created. Absent other volunteers, I'm > > happy to help. > > > > Well, you can download it here: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/755426/instala_linux.sh, maybe you can do > something > better that me ;-) > OK, I'll take a look. Thanks for posting it. > > > > > > It may be that bash is not a good choice for such a scripting task > (that's > > probably part of why it's ugly). Have you considered Python? > > > > Yes, I have. But I am not a programer and I know a little about bashscript. > I have done what I could with my "rustic tools" =D. Call it a "workaround". > > > > > > To be specific, though, what is the additional stuff that exists outside > of > > /opt? > > > > Also, I have to ask what is the additional stuff that those distros > aren't > > adding that you feel should be included? > > > > Good question. Mandriva is still distributed with OpenOffice 3.2 and so is > Fedora. I use Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.11, and LibreOffice 3.3.2, which aren't > in > the Ubuntu's repositories yet. So, I really don't know what those distros > are changing in original packages of LibreOffice. > You can look on the Debian repositories to get an idea what will be in Ubuntu. See http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libreoffice -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/projects/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
