Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 02:06:10 UTC 2013


On 3 February 2013 19:04, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I think it should be approved first if it really required.
>
> alternatives is the wrong technology for end user facing applications.
> Why can't our apache openoffice package rename /usr/bin/soffice?
>

My understanding is that /usr/bin/soffice is a symlink in order to
keep backwards maintainability. Personally I say both packages drop it
because star office is soooo 1999. :)

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