In light of <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/177998.html> "Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice"

"[...] given OOo/LO's tradition of being installable to arbitrary locations (which in turn is a direct consequence of its multi-plaform nature), there's code available in OOo/LO's SDK that can be bundled with [...] applications [that programmatically spawn an OOo
process to get their work done] to help them to find a OOo/LO
installation, with fallbacks to platform-specific heuristics. For Unix, that includes searching PATH for a file or symlink named 'soffice'. Not breaking that has been one reason why it has never been considered worthwhile to drop the /usr/bin/soffice symlink 'just for aesthetics.'"

---is there any rationale for <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/178173.html> "Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice"

"[...] looks like <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b1cf810a8e7342ad5d518528fd58266daf6e90ec> 'LibreOffice branding: make desktop integration work (fix2)' dropped the /usr/bin/soffice symlink from the upstream LO packages, for reasons that escape me---maybe it was just ignorance or an oversight."

Stephan
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