Re: Comments? (OpenOffice.org Dictionaries)

[Colin Charles <linux bytebot net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 13:26, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> Seconded - each program having it's own auto-update/install mechanism is a 
> hideous misfeature of Windows-world, lets not go there please. For example 
> DicOOo doesn't seem to support proxies currently (and yes I've set up 
> the proxies in OOo config) so it's unusable for me at work. Never mind 
> that I seriously dislike random programs fetching stuff over the Internet 
> to install something. I'd much rather see the language packs as gpg-signed 
> rpm's.

Shouldn't we stick to mainstream as much as possible?

We might as well get proxy support in DicOOo and that makes a whole lot
more sense - get it fixed upstream, and all is well for us
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