Summary: | app-dict/enchant needs to migrate personal dictionaries from aspell to hunspell if it is going to arbitrarily change to that as a default | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Andrew Cowie <andrew> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Spell checking utilities and dictionaries -- related bugs (OBSOLETE) <app-dicts+disabled> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | gnome, serkan |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Andrew Cowie
2009-03-19 10:58:59 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 261050 *** This is not a duplicate of that bug. You have a packaging problem: you have changed default behaviour but not migrated users' personal word lists from the back end removed to the new back end. This results in breakage for existing users. Packages aren't supposed to do that. AfC If we enable aspell by default this means users will use aspell spell checking library and this means they will loss superior spell checking technology in form of hunspell. (In reply to comment #2) > You have a packaging problem: you have changed default behaviour but not > migrated users' personal word lists from the back end removed to the new back > end. Packages should not touch users word lists. Users have to update their configurations manually. > This results in breakage for existing users. Packages aren't supposed to do > that. In Gentoo it's supposed that after certain upgrades you have to update your system's configuration. We don't provide some fixed set of features, but features and their configuration change as Gentoo evolve. On a plus side you don't have to reinstall full distribution to get new features but you need to reconfigure parts of your system... @gnome, does there exist upgrading guide anywhere? Probably this is something we want to document. If there is no gnome upgrading guide, I'll either add instructions to enchant ebuild on how to upgrade words lists manually or... may be this is a good candidate for news item. no action was taken and this issue is outdated by now. Closing with appropriate status. |