Define standard hunspell dict location

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:50 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Well, I didn't really intend to post this, but since I've subscribed anyway.
> 
> The SUN OpenOffice.org people are considering an extremely complex 
> firefox-like extension system for distribute their hunspell 
> dictionaries. The reasoning being:
> 
> 1. dictionnaries have to be distributed separately from OO.o (users 
> wouldn't like a full-dict huge download, or dicts have incompatible 
> licenses),
> 
> 2. linux distributions will never agree on a standard place to put 
> dictionaries, so complex registration mechanisms are needed to ensure 
> dict distribution works in all cases :
> 
>  > It's no problem to have platform dependent pathes for OOo. The problem
>  > is that there is no "Linux" setting for this, only a "$(distro)" way
>  > of doing it.
> 
> So can you put the SUN guys out of their misery and define an "official" 
> root for hunspell dicts?

Why would this be any more complicated than adding

HUNSPELL_DICT_DIR=/usr/share/myspell 

to /etc/profile ?