FS#50471 - [hunspell-en] split packages like in debian-like distribs

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Olivier (ochurlaud) - Sunday, 21 August 2016, 12:31 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 17:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description
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Currently installing hunspell-en installs all the english variant. It's quite problematic in GUI software to choose the right dictionary (see http://ctrlv.in/827324)

I would like to be able to have only the variant I'd like (for example just en_US)

Currently my only way is to delete the symlinks in /usr/share/hunspell, which must be done again after each update.

The same apply for each locale (fr, de,...)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 16 September 2018, 17:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 15:43 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
Reverted by https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/hunspell-en&id=ddd1713c31e306620f8c0464b11e53593e23e788.

Please change again.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 16:42 GMT
There's no hunspell-en pkg anymore. Only hunspell-en-GB includes symlinks of variants. If you want en-US just install only that one. I won't split it any further.
Comment by Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 16:50 GMT
So if I want to speak British english instead of American, I’m screwed? And in my case I might need both (I’m sometimes asked to write in either one or the other).

Naive question, what are those variants symlinks used for?
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 17:09 GMT
The variants symlinks are basically just to make sure a second language variant is registered, which is supposed to be identical to the original. e.g. all the en_GB_aliases languages are actually just British english regardless of the country code...
Comment by Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 17:14 GMT
@Eli: That I got. My question rather is: is it useful to actually have them?
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 17:17 GMT
They're taken from Fedora spec file. I expect other packages and apps to make use of it to preset/detect existing hunspell installation corresponding to system locale. Maybe it's best you do a custom build removing those alias.
Comment by Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 17:18 GMT
OK, will do that then. You can close again, thanks.

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