Re: backported vs upstream libreoffice 4
On Thursday 23 May 2013 09:36:34 you wrote:
> A recent thread made me aware of the availability of
> LO4 in wheezy-backports. Then I started wondering what
> advantages were to be gained from using this version,
> given that DEB packages are provided by the upstream
> developers themselves ?
> Perhaps less disk space / memory bloat because system
> libraries can be shared ? Better desktop integration?
> Is this documented somewhere ?
Not sure about the 'is it documented' part.
Lots of work being done for some reason:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2013/05/threads.html
I like having my apps managed by my distro's dev team, security provided
by same, upstream does not do secrity they do new releases to fix and
create new bugs.
And yes, the Debian version works well with all the other apps in
Debian, finally, Libreoffice expects most GNU/Linux users to use the
version provided by a distro, fair warning I say.
--
Peace,
Greg
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