No /usr/bin/soffice symlink on Linux?

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:21:22PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>   "[...] 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.'"

That reminds me of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695916 and
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121481...

Regards,

Rene