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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:39:00AM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: > Now if only Apple could do the same to its developers. As near > as I can tell, Apple makes it pretty easy to drag and drop an > application to install it, but for some damn reason some vendors > insist on not doing that. > > Apple needs to smack them around a bit. Case in point. NeoOffice, OpenOffice with a splash of Aqua. Why does it need a .pkg installer?! Looking inside /Library/Receipts/NeoOfficeJ.pkg/Contents/Resources I can use lsbom to see that all installed files went into a nice, neat NeoOffice.app directory in /Applications. The only installation logic is to check that basic BSD commands (ask, cat, chmod, chown...) are all there. Why NeoOffice needs these is beyond me. Its a 340 meg app, you'd think they could include a function to cat a file. Why it doesn't trust these files are shipped with OS X is beyond me. Why, if it does really need them, it doesn't just ship with these trivial binaries is beyond me. Maybe there's a plan to ship NeoOffice updates instead of whole release versions, dunno. I just hate it.There's stuff above here
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