Selection of dictionaries per installation

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 09/11/2012 09:59 AM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Stephan Bergmann píše v Po 10. 09. 2012 v 17:53 +0200:
>> On 09/10/2012 05:09 PM, Andras Timar wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> But wouldn't there already be a conflict between the "base" (en-US)
>> installation set providing dict-fr and the fr langpack providing dict-fr
>> too, then?
>>
>> I think there's no package conflict involved here, anyway, as the
>> various installation sets ("base," langpacks) are simply collections of
>> (rpm etc.) packages, and no problem should arise if a single package is
>> contained in multiple such collections.
>
> I see only two problems :-)

Just to be clear, I do not intend to do anything about this (at least 
not for now anyway).  I just wanted to document the status quo.

Stephan