Selection of dictionaries per installation

[Andras Timar]

2012/9/10 Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com>:
> On 08/30/2012 01:16 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> PS1: The way dictionaries "related" to a given locale are determined
>> appears to be the the list at
>> setup_native/source/packinfo/spellchecker_selection.txt.  That's why the
>> en-US base installation set for Linux and Mac OS X contains dict-en,
>> dict-es, and dict-fr, for example.  However, an apparent inconsistency
>> is that langpack_de only contains dict-de, and not also dict-fr and
>> dict-it, as that list would suggest.
>
>
> Looks like that spellchecker_selection.txt (aka SPELLCHECKERFILE,
> instsetoo_native/util/openoffice.lst) is only consulted when creating "base"
> installation sets, not when creating langpacks (whether or not that's by
> design or by mistake).

I think it is by design. It would not be good, when different
langpacks wanted to install the same dictionary. Package conflict
would occur.

Andras