Symlink to OpenOffice.org Binary

Howard Goldstein hg at queue.to
Thu Jan 10 15:34:26 PST 2008


A.J. Kehoe IV (Nanoman) wrote:
> My idea is to add something like "@${LN} -fs 
> ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-${OOOVERSION} ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org" 
> to the Makefiles and put the corresponding symlinks in the pkg-plist 
> files.  Whatever version was installed last would open when you run 
> "openoffice.org", and if you have more than one version installed, you 
> can choose which one to run by adding the version number as a suffix.
> 
> Comments, anyone?  Should I go ahead and submit the patches?
> 

As I'm always forgetting to update other things pointing to an updated 
OO is installed I would like to see this.



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