[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124853] LO .desktop files belong to root and not user

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124853

Buovjaga <ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoff
                   |                            |ice.org
         Resolution|---                         |WORKSFORME

--- Comment #8 from Buovjaga <ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> ---
Discussed with our release manager and he advised to close this as WFM:

"Having symlinks is common practice on linux, nowhere in the spec is it written
that they must be plain files. find /usr/share/icons/ -type l |wc -l → 287
links here for example.

Reason why LO uses symlinks is that the packages are relocatable (and by
default install to /opt/ - it is not possible to use plain files in another
prefix in that case, so the desktop-integration package creates the symlinks)

Distro-packages that change the installations paths are free to change how the
desktop files are installed. They don't need to care about being
relocatable/only using a single prefix, so no reason for them to keep the
symlinks."

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