A while ago, all my spell checking stopped working, whether by command line (aspell or enchant) or in gnome apps (evo, gaim, etc.). In addition, gedit started crashing when I attempted spell checking. I finally traced the error down to having aspell-0.60 on my system, but aspell-en-0.51. The result is a highly broken aspell. It seems likely that dependencies should enforce the upgrade of the aspell-lang packages when aspell is updated to 0.60 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add app-text/aspell ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords 2. Update aspell 3. Run gedit -> crash, run aspell -> no dictionary
i can confirm this .. not quite sure how to fix it tho because it means adding versions to virtuals. the reason for the breakage if you mix dictionaries is because 0.60 removed the strip-accents option which alot of the dictionaries used (well, at least english ones.) there is already an einfo at the end of the aspell ebuild saying that you should re-emerge all aspell- LANG dictionaries. for the record, this is the error you get: acnt2@huggins /usr/portage/app-dicts/aspell-en $ aspell -c ChangeLog Error: /usr/lib/aspell-0.60/en_GB.multi:2: The key "strip-accents" is unknown.
That means when I use aspell-0.6* I can't use aspell-en-0.5* ?
it would be good if aspell-0.6 blocked aspell-en-0.5 for example. or the opposite...
OK; I've set aspell to block on aspell-en-0.5; now in CVS. I checked most of the other languages, and it seems it's only English that causes the problem.
(In reply to comment #4) > OK; I've set aspell to block on aspell-en-0.5; now in CVS. > I checked most of the other languages, and it seems it's only English that > causes the problem. > So - I've got this: =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.4-r1) I can't upgrade GNOME 2.16 because of it. What to do? Please advise! Thanks!
(In reply to comment #5) > So - I've got this: > > =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.4-r1) > > I can't upgrade GNOME 2.16 because of it. > > What to do? All you need to do is unmerge the blocking package ('emerge --unmerge app-dicts/aspell-en'), then everything will merge fine. This is the same as you would have to do for any block. If you unmask =app-text/aspell-0.60.4-r2 (add that to /etc/portage/package.unmask; it's currently testing), it'll emerge app-dicts/aspell-en-6 for you automatically, otherwise you may have to emerge again app-dicts/aspell-en manually. Make sure you are accepting aspell-en from ~arch - (as you've already done for app-text/aspell itself - add it to /etc/portage/package.keywords).
