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Re: OOo2 dependencies don't seem right



Hi,

Drew Parsons wrote:
> Oh OK.  But what does "won't work" mean?
> 
> If OOo1 crashes at start up because the OOo2 thesaurus is installed, or
> vice versa, then the strong conflict makes sense.

That indeed is the case.

> But if "won't work" simply means the OOo1 thesaurus function doesn't do
> it's job properly because the installed thesaurus is OOo2, then the
> Conflict is too strong.

I would disagree..

> something, who can say?).  You don't need the OOo1 thesaurus for that,
> since the document is already written, but you do want other parts of
> OOo1.  Is OOo1 really going to crash because it doesn't have a usable
> thesaurus?

Uh, the stuff *is* parallel installable currently. Just not the
thesauri...

> Alternatively, if the source of the conflict
> is /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst, then would it be a bad idea to have
> OOo2 to use /etc/openoffice2/, instead?  Seems like this would help
> simultaneous installation a lot, and it's done that way at the level
> of /usr/lib.

See the archive of debian-openoffice where I said why I didn't do that.

Regards,

Rene

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