Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible merge of myspell/hunspell dictionaries

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

Ühel kenal päeval, P, 09.07.2023 kell 10:10, kirjutas Sam James:
> 
> zurabid2016@gmail.com writes:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I am new here, so I'm sorry in advance for any stupid thing I may
> > say. I want to adopt hunspell for various reasons and what I've
> > noticed is a plethora of app-dicts/myspell-* packages (for each
> > language there's one).
> > 
> > I suggest merging them into one big myspell-dicts package, which
> > will certainly reduce maintenance burden (the similar thing is done
> > with libreoffice-l10n, I think).
> > 
> 
> My only real question is why they're split in the first place and
> if there's some good reason for that. I've no idea.

I would guess that they are different packages because they all have a
different SRC_URI. Many to some libreoffice assets download location,
but not all.
Maybe they could all come from the same source in an updated packaging
though, I don't know the background.


Mart