Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Feb 4 07:38:00 UTC 2013


David Tardon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> said:
>> > 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. :)
>> 
>> There's more than just soffice:
>> 
>> $ rpm -ql libreoffice-core | grep bin/ | xargs ls -ld
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 362 Dec  6 18:37 /usr/bin/libreoffice
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  32 Dec  6 18:37 /usr/bin/ooffice
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  39 Dec  6 18:37 /usr/bin/ooviewdoc
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  11 Jan  9 12:46 /usr/bin/openoffice.org ->
>> libreoffice
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  38 Jan  9 12:46 /usr/bin/soffice ->
>> /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 360 Dec  6 18:37 /usr/bin/unopkg
> 
> There is also /usr/bin/oowriter, oocalc, ooimpress, oodraw and oobase
> that belong to other libreoffice-* subpackages.

Ugh. That's just one more reason to not allow the Apache fork to be 
packaged.

        Kevin Kofler



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