Bugzilla Bug 132433

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81415

This affects all versions of app-text/enchant. Sent an email upstream already.


Looking at the ebuild the dependencies seem a bit odd. Enchant links to aspell,
but to have the dictionaries of the other spell checkers available pure runtime
dependencies suffice. Also maybe the user doesn't want en US/GB dictionaries.


I'd say a virtual/ispell-dict and having all app-dicts/ispell-* depend on 
|| ( app-text/ispell app-text/enchant )  - a fixed version of course - is the
better way. Probably similar issues with the other spell checkers (didn't look
at them).

Could you explain your bug exactly.. ? You seem to raise several issues, one
about ispell not working with enchant (fair enough) and then something about
dependencies here or there (too vague to make out what you mean).

Also you say you put something upstream (what and where?) and something else
about not wanting an english dictionary. In short this is just one hell of a
bugreport and that from a dev.

> In short this is just one hell of a bugreport and that from a dev.

Sorry. I thought the kde bug would be enough as explanation. Ispell changed (at
least four years ago) its dictionary file format and enchant never adapted. I
stumbled about it, because of bug 130496.

Yes, I went upstream, but thought it might make sense to make aware about it.
The author replied that he'll look to fix it in a coming release of enchant,
but that he doesn't know, when he finds the time.


The dependecy issues are disputable and if you want it, I do open another bug,
but I thought this would not be necessary.

I think the dependencies make sense as it is, after all you need them runtime
to spellcheck anything. Yes a virtual to provide a default ispell dictionary
makes sense (like aspell does), but that should be filed to the ispell
maintainers.

As far as the backends go, I knew not all worked as well, that is why aspell is
the primary provider. If ispell does not work at all, it should be removed from
the dep list. I am no position to test all backends, I think that is more
something our userbase could report (I cannot remember having bugs reported
about it).

Is this still a problem?

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is this still a problem?
> 

In KDE it's still an issue, as the inluded Enchant version hasn't been been
updated afaik. I'm not aware, if this problem has been taken care of in
v.1.3.0.

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Is this still a problem?
> > 
> 
> In KDE it's still an issue, as the inluded Enchant version hasn't been been
> updated afaik. I'm not aware, if this problem has been taken care of in
> v.1.3.0.
> 

would be nice if kde could use system's enchant.

I think this problem will go away when KDE3 goes away.. adding kde@ to track
this issue

enchant works only with myspell-fr here...

As far as KDE is concerned, this is no longer a issue for us (unless proven
otherwise) with the KDE 3.5.10 masking today.