[arch-general] adding hunspell-xx packages

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

On 30 December 2010 12:31, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> Right now we don't have modern dictionaries packaged. People use AUR
> packages or poor OpenOffice extensions that cannot be used for other
> apps. The proper way is to have hunspell-xx packages providing a
> dictionary, thesaurus and hyphenation data files.
>
> I'm going to add a base set of hunspell-{en,de,foo} packages to
> testing. A common PKGBUILD doesn't make much sense because the
> upstream sources are maintained in different countries and releases
> come at different time.
>
> This way we can make use of the packages in OOo/LibO, enchant and
> Mozilla's FF/TB/SM packages. The files will go
> into  /usr/share/hunspell/xx_XX with symlinks
> to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/xx-XX for historical reason.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell for more.
>
> To compare look at
> http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/openoffice.org-dictionaries
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=hunspell-XX.git
> http://gentoo-portage.com/app-dicts/ the myspell-xx packages.
>
> Any comments or objection?
>
> -Andy
>

Sounds great.

Lukas