Another Fedora gripe ...

Bill Traynor btraynor-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org
Mon May 8 13:47:33 UTC 2006


On 5/8/06, Paul King <pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Apart from the "entitlements" mentioned earlier, I noticed that Fedora 4
> decided to place the entire OpenOffice distribution -- all 250 megs of
> it -- under /etc, of all places. This seems to be new for FC4. You gotta
> wonder about who writes the install scripts...

FC4 puts Ooo in /etc to to enable use by all system users. This is so
third party tools like testtool can locate the install.  A single user
install will put it in /home of said user.

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