Re: staroffice.deb

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Brian White writes:
> > > > The installer installes wrapper for all programs: swriter3, scalc3,
> > > > simage3, sdraw3, schart3
> > >
> > > Why the trailing "3"?
> > 
> > Star Office 3.1.  I can install them without the trailing number.
> > This is the name that StarDivision has given.
> 
> Personally, I think I'd prefer it without the version number.  That's
> been the general standard for Debian.  If you will be able to install
> v3 and v4 together, then you can use an update-alternative to have
> "swriter" pointer to either "swriter3" or "swriter4".

I thought about this.  I don't remember how update-alternatives work.
I would be glad if you could provide me a short code snipped that
I could include in the postinst file.

Regards

	Joey

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