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

Wed Nov 30 15:20:57 CET 2011

On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:13:00 pm andre999 wrote:
+> 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 :)
++1
+-- 
+Thomas
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