Hi Harvey,most of the packages, which are supported by Linux distributions, will work well and will be better integrated than the packages of LibreOffice directly. But: If you are using Base I would never use the packages the Linux distribution will support.
Example 1: Try Firebird in Linux distributions. The packages of any distribution are very small. There is no Firebird 3 provided by LibreOffice installed because they say: We could support Firebird directly. But it won't work, because there are different versions. You couldn't open a database file with Firebird, created by Ubuntu, with LibreOffice on Windows. But you could create a working Base file with Firebird when using packages of LO.
Example 2: Don't know if this works now, but for many years you couldn't execute any report in Base with packages from Ubuntu or OpenSuSE. But Packages from LO will work well.
On my system (OpenSUSE 15.6) is working MariaDB as server together with LibreOffice Base (not the packages from OpenSUSE) very well with direct connection.
Conclusion: Write a bug to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/index.cgiMight be it helps. Don't know why there is anybody who tries to do it better than packager from LibreOffice directly. Much to do for the person and a bad result for users.
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