No /usr/bin/soffice symlink on Linux?

[Stephan Bergmann]

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