David Stacey <drstacey@...> writes: > On 13/07/16 14:30, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 13/07/2016 14:57, Ken Brown wrote: >>> On 7/13/2016 4:17 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>>> On 13/07/2016 00:26, David Stacey wrote: >>>>> On 12/07/2016 23:22, David Stacey wrote: >>>>>> My good deed for the day. See >>>>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00129.html >>>>>> Based heavily on the Fedora package of the same name. >>>>> # noarch: >>>>> BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/noarch/release >>>>> wget --no-check-certificate --no-host-directories --force-directories >>>>> --cut-dirs=5 \ >>>>> ${BASEURL}/words/setup.hint \ >>>>> ${BASEURL}/words/words-3.0-1-src.tar.xz \ >>>>> ${BASEURL}/words/words-3.0-1.tar.xz >>>> it looks fine. >>>> Added the package to cygwin-pkg-maint >>> This needs to be coordinated with Warren's proposal: >>> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-07/msg00015.html >> the two packages seem to provide different word lists. >> In theory both can coexist > Not as they stand - both packages provide the /usr/share/dict/words symlink. > I've done a little digging. Here's where /usr/share/dict/words comes from on various distros: > - words - ALT, Arch?, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, OpenMandriva, ROSA > - bsd-games - Slackware (that's just plain wrong!) > - wamerican - Ubuntu > - Not present at all - Debian? > 'miscfiles' is available on Debian and Ubuntu, but nether provides the /usr/share/dict/words symlink.
On Debian, miscfiles and others provide virtual package wordlist which is provided in /etc/dictionaries-common/; miscfiles /usr/share/dict/web2 is symlinked as /etc/dictionaries-common/words which is symlinked as /usr/share/dict/words. Spelling and other dictionary packages also provide wordlists and other dictionary types linked thru /etc/dictionaries-common/. Setup is by sysadmin selecting a language or variation. > Obviously, we don't have to follow any of that - this is just an > observation of what other distros do. > How should Cygwin proceed? Is this a case for alternatives, or is that a > little over the top for a dictionary? Should one of the packages drop > the symlink? Do we need both 'miscfiles' and 'words' packages? Should we > drop 'words' if 'miscfiles' provides a superset of the data? Debian does not use alternatives for this, but its own standard locations and symlinks for virtual packages: alternatives looks like mainly tools, man pages, some libs, icons, images, lots for Gnome.
