Bug 92612 – Emerging app-office/openoffice with LINGUAS="sv" should install a Swedish dictionary and thesarus

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Erik Östlund 2005-05-14 09:14:35 UTC]

Spell-checking is an important part of localization. If I've expressed my wish to have the entire Open Office suite translated to Swedish by setting LINGUAS='sv en' I should also receive a Swedish dictionary and thesarus.

 These are the dictionaries and thesaruses that I received instead: American Enligsh, British English, Danish and Russian.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. LINGUAS="sv en" emerge openoffice
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I received American English, British English, Danish and Russian dictionaries
and thesaruses.

Expected Results:  
I should have received Swedish and English thesaruses.

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 19:27:41)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.5, 1.7.9-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo"
LINGUAS="sv en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
curl emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2
mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib png qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml2 xv zlib
linguas_sv linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-14 09:23:50 UTC]

Have you tried app-office/ooodi? :-)

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-14 09:27:24 UTC]

Looking at the other bug, it should be now even included in OOo by default. Marking as dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42512 ***

[Comment 3 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-05-14 10:07:50 UTC]

Go to File > Autopilot > Install new dictionaries, that's the way to add additional dictionaries / thesaurus, it works beautifully, no reason to change this.

[Comment 4 Erik Östlund 2005-05-14 10:50:53 UTC]

The problem isn't that it's difficult to install a new dictionary. It's just that as the system administrator I've already specified what languages should be available for my users. The vast majority of users want spell-checking in the same language as the interface.

On a sidenote: The whole purpose of having a packaging system is that the administrator has to do as little work as possible setting things up. There are already so many language-settings that needs to be done when configuring Gentoo. Please spare us of this one.

An easier to implement solution could be to bundle all the dictionaries and thesaruses, or at least the explicitly requested ones *wink* *wink*. Open Office is already a big download, Gentoo administrators most likely have a fast connection due to the nature of Portage, and even if they don't, download time is marginal compared to compilation time. This way the system administrator has less work to do and the end-user has maximum flexibility.