Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 6, 2023 15:29 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by MarcB
Parent article: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

> The assumption that developers are good at packaging - or that they fully understand their software and its interaction with other components - is simply wrong.

As somebody who has written a makefile (for a very simple piece of software, and assuming nothing more than a modern linux system) I can only concur.

I wrote it and it worked fine on my gentoo system. Then somebody tried to run it on - Red Hat I believe - and it fell over in a heap.

Systemd may have brought distros closer together, but there's still plenty of landmines for unwary developers cum packagers.

Cheers,
Wol