Bug#319548: openoffice.org2: Why hide programs in /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/ ?

[Rene Engelhard <rene.engelhard@gmx.de>]

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tag 319548 + wontfix
retitle 319548 openoffice.org: Why "hide" programs (e.g. unopkg) in /usr/lib/openoffice/program
thanks

Hi,

[ sorry for the late reply to this ]

Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an 
> application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data 
> exclusively used by the application must be placed within that 
> subdirectory. [23]"
>
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/pkgchk which actaully says to use 
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg instead are "internal binaries" which 
> the normal user should *not* run by himself. He might have access to them 
> though the GUI.

Exactly. Through the "Extension Manager" (or "Packagee Manager" in older
versions). Accessible from the "Tools" menu.

The only real use case for unopkg outside the extension manager
is scripted (de-)installation of extensions. Which then need to call
unopkg with the full path, yes. That should be quite rare, though, except
in extension packages in Debian which need to run unopkg with --shared
anyway to register themselves.

Tagging as wontfix.

Regards,

Rene
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