> I wouldn't suggest a name change at this point in the > development cycle, but for one thing: it worries me > that the present name contains a dot. This is asking > for trouble. The dot is widely used to delimit filename > extensions. Utilities such as run-parts do not include > the dot as one of the characters they allow in the names > of files they process. So it probably won't be possible > consistently to use "openoffice.org" to form filenames > without confusing some utility or another. (Yes, > I grant that many packages include dots as parts of > version suffixes, e.g., the libssl0.9.6 package.) That run-parts behavior was changed anyway, to conform to the LSB which requires dots in third-party init script names not allocated by LANANA. run-parts uses an exclude list now. Might be good to make the OOo package provide "openoffice" anyway. Or just call it ooo, I like that.. -- see shy jo
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