Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Feb 4 07:35:43 UTC 2013


PPS: Oh, and this:
> The /usr/bin/soffice alias is still a problem since (in the Fedora
> packages) it would conflict between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice: it
> is recommended to fix it in the LibreOffice packages too, at least using
> the Alternatives system.
is just not acceptable. Alternatives is the wrong solution for this (in 
fact, I'd argue it's always the wrong solution), because it is systemwide. 
Why can't you just rename or delete /usr/bin/soffice?

        Kevin Kofler



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