These dependencies need auditing anyhow. Meanwhile, we can have these dictionaries shifted to a lower priority, like recommended instead of required.
Little is known by the general userbase about these dictionaries and their purpose and usefulness.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Josip Rodin
<joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net> wrote:
Josip Rodin wrote:
> IMHO the non-desktop installation for Croatian needs to lose all of:
> [...] dict-*, [...]
> because none of these packages are *required* for a Croatian Debian
> system.
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> So, it would seem logical to me that the decision about "should we by
> default install some spelling software along with the needed
> dictionary(ies) in localized non-desktop systems" should be a general
> decision. Either all language tasks include a dictionary or none of
> them does.
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> The localization tasks are not about what is *required*, but about what an
> average Croation user might *expect* to have installed by default. IMO
> that includes basic localized documentation and spell checking.
OK. The last language-specific issue here are the dictionaries.
I'm explicitly Cc:ing Safir just in case he isn't following closely.
These seem to be the only dict-* dependencies among the tasks:
bosnian: dict-freedict-scr-eng
croatian: dict-freedict-cro-eng
croatian: dict-freedict-eng-cro
croatian: dict-freedict-scr-eng
serbian: dict-freedict-scr-eng
serbian: opendict-plugins-lingvosoft
They're not a horribly bad idea, but I don't see how they would really
be something that is expected, if no other language tasks include anything
like this.
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