Bug 63951 – SquirrelMail ebuild does not require ispell package with spell USE flag

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Marks 2004-09-13 17:33:31 UTC]

When using the spell USE flag for SquirrelMail, the ispell package (which is required for the spelling plug-in) is not emerged as a dependency, causing it to error when you try to use the plug-in.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-04-08 12:27:02 UTC]

squirrelmail doens't use the 'spell' use flag...

[Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-04-08 12:30:27 UTC]

It has been added to RDEPEND

[Comment 3 Sri Gupta 2005-04-08 18:06:20 UTC]

Squirrelmail shouldn't require ispell.  if you don't use the squirrelspell plugin, it will happily run without ispell, and even if you do, squirrelspell supports aspell as well (some of us like to run GPL software whereever possible).  Shoving ispell down our throats isn't the answer here.  

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-09 05:26:51 UTC]

I don

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-09 05:26:51 UTC]

I don´t want this, definitely not as a hard dependency without any use flag. See Bug 88436 for reasons (which are similar to Comment #3 here anyway). :-(

[Comment 6 Alexander Marks 2005-04-09 11:20:57 UTC]

I would suggest that the aspell dependency be removed, and that a messagewarning the user that in order to use the spelling plugin he must install either aspell or ispell. Or perhaps there could be an aspell/ispell use flag to specify which is desired?

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-09 13:08:16 UTC]

Comment #5: 

1. There is a global spell flag... 
2. What about something like this?

IUSE="crypt ldap spell ssl virus-scan"
RDEPEND="...
        spell? || ( app-text/ispell app-text/aspell )"

[Comment 8 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-04-09 16:25:59 UTC]

that IS what's in it