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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Where forth are thou /usr/share/dict/ ?
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Hi,

  I just recently resubscribed to the developer list after being dumped
from a server upgrade or something. I forgot how much mail I would get!

Anyway, I was trying out all of the xscreensaver modules (you do it too!),
and tried getting the webcollage module to work. One of the things it
needs is a dictionary to lookup words for random web searching, but I was
unable to locate a package in gentoo that provides the necessary word
list. I looked in my FreeBSD machine and grabbed the files from
/usr/share/dict/, but they appear to be part of the FreeBSD userland, and
not separately maintained (though, how often does a dictionary really need
to be updated?)

If anyone is interested in making an ebuild and adding a word dictionary
to gentoo (they're good for cracking or checking the strength of passwords
too), the files can be had here:

http://ozma.union.utexas.edu/~busterb/dict.tar.gz

This should be an inoccuous package to add, since it is just text files.

 - Brent