Bug 268115

Summary:	Allow installing of app-text/dictd client only
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick White <gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Spell checking utilities and dictionaries -- related bugs (OBSOLETE) <app-dicts+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nick White 2009-05-01 14:06:58 UTC

At present the dictd ebuild installs both the dict client and server. However it would be useful to be able to have the option to only install the client. I'm not sure if this would be best done just with a use-flag or with a separate package, but I'd be happy to write an ebuild for it.

To only build the client is easy, one just replaces "make" with "make dict" and "make install" with "make install.dict" (as the README explains).

Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-24 21:20:05 UTC

Thank you for report. I've added minimal USE flag which installs dict client, dictfmt and dictzip utilities only. dictzip and dictfmt are used by some packages in the tree to build dictionaries and even more - that packages depend on dictd only for this packages. As I understand our main goal is to avoid installation of server thus to simplify things I've included them too. Enjoy.

Comment 2 Nick White 2009-05-25 00:15:21 UTC

Thanks everso much, that's great :-)