[Mageia-dev] Consolidation of the spelling tools in Mageia

Wed Nov 30 07:13:00 CET 2011

Jerome Quelin a écrit :
+> hi,
+>
+> On 11/11/28 17:28 -0500, andre999 wrote:
+>    
+>>> so i there some kind of meta-package which is responsible for obsoleting
+>>> packages that should be uninstalled?
+>>>        
+>> Why not do what boklm suggested on Mageia-dev (2011-11-20 18:01) :
+>>      
+...
+> you don't answer the question. i'm not asking what to do in svn, that's
+> pretty easy. but if we do only what you suggest, then the packages will
+> stay installed on systems upgraded from mageia 1. and if the package is
+> unmaintained, we don't want that to happen: we want the package to be
+> uninstalled from all mageia 2 installs.
+>
+> the question is: how? which package is to obsolete the list of unwanted
+> softs?
+>
+> jérôme
+>    
+
+Sorry, I should have realised that you were asking more than that :/
+When a package is dropped, do we usually try to force its' removal ?
+
+In this case, we are mostly trying to minimise the spellcheckers that we 
+support.  Once we drop a package, we no longer support it.  So if 
+someone has a problem with it, our solution would be "install hunspell".
+
+If it hasn't already been done, we should mention it being dropped in 
+the release notes.
+
+To obsolete the other spellcheckers, it seems to me that the only place 
+to put the obsolete to be reliably executed would be in hunspell.
+If the user doesn't have hunspell installed, then either they are using 
+another spellchecker (which would be their choice, and we wouldn't be 
+supporting), or none at all.
+
+another 2 cents :)
+
+-- 
+André
+
+