FS#77786 - [gedit] Add aspell as an optional dependency for spell checking

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by physkets (physkets) - Thursday, 09 March 2023, 03:01 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Thursday, 09 March 2023, 04:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The gedit text editor uses aspell for spell checking, but if it isn't installed, the editor fails to check spellings and gives no indication of what package needs to be installed for that function to work. It would be nice if the optional dependencies indicated this.
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Thursday, 09 March 2023, 04:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Thursday, 09 March 2023, 04:22 GMT
> The gedit text editor uses aspell for spell checking

Sorta. It uses "gspell" which depends on "enchant" which lists "aspell" as an optdep. Related  FS#72248 .

This kind of report where optdeps are buried further down the chain comes up quite frequently. I'm afraid it's just the quirky way Arch does deps. Users are expected to pay attention to pacman output when installing pkgs.

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