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

Wed Nov 30 20:45:19 CET 2011

On 30.11.2011 15:20, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+> 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
+Hello!
+
+I plan to drop this ispell package - that is broken (or people must 
+install ispell on their own).
+
+I don't want to drop (remove from mirrors) aspell (and unsure for about 
+myspell), I will just try to force everything to use only hunspell and 
+don't taint the standard installation with every possible spell-checker.
+
+Dropping aspell could be done for Mga3 - I think, now just simply don't 
+use it as much as possible to make a good ground to drop it later.
+
+I will try to write a policy for packaging dicts and and info what to 
+enforce to use different spell-checker.
+