On 02/06/2013 02:17 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
On 6 February 2013 12:33, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:sbergman@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 02/06/2013 02:36 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
About the "soffice" alias, it still breaks parallel installation
in F18
(just tried, the desktop integration from OpenOffice conflicts with
libreoffice-core). It seems that the upstream LibreOffice
packages no
longer use the "soffice" alias (at least, the desktop
integration only
installs "libreoffice3.6"),
Yeah, looks like
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/__libreoffice/core/commit/?id=__b1cf810a8e7342ad5d518528fd5826__6daf6e90ec
<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.
Whether it was dropped upstream or not (you sure on current LO not
having that?) we're talking about Fedora's packaging here and
the implication on the changes of behaviour to Fedora users...
Sure; the above is of little relevance for Fedora.
Just checked my system:
[me@system ~]$ which soffice
/usr/bin/soffice
[me@system ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/soffice
libreoffice-core-3.6.3.2-8.fc18.x86_64
That commit date was back in 2010 and this was a fresh F18 install and
not an upgrade as well...
I just grabbed the SRPM for 4.0 from rawhide as well to check and the
spec file includes %{_bindir}/soffice
And the corresponding comment in the libreoffice.spec "rhbz#499474
provide a /usr/bin/soffice for .recently-used.xbel" describes one more
place that relies on the /usr/bin/soffice symlink: "grep soffice
~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel" shows entries "exec=''soffice
%u'" not qualified by an explicit path.
So there's an expectation of compatibility that exists right now -
Stephen what's your thoughts on this going forwards?
For the usecases where a /usr/bin/soffice symlink is used for
applications' programmatic invocation of the office suite, one option at
least for applications packaged up for Fedora is that they shortcut that
"search for an office suite" step and directly depend on and reference
e.g. /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.
(unoconv comes to mind as an application in that category, and its
lengthy upstream code to locate the office suite could indeed benefit
from a Fedora-specific patch.)
This would, of course, only address part of the usecases for those
symlinks. For others (like users' expectation to be able to issue
path-less soffice, oowriter, etc. commands) I have no good idea how to
solve that.
Stephan
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