On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:38:50PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [David Coe] > > I'll think about this, but ispell requires a wordlist in order for > > its "lookup" command to work. It's not a strict requirement for the > > rest of ispell's functionality, which is why the wordlist packages > > are recommends and not depends. > > Oh. Did not know this. Perhaps it is useful in Debian Edu after > all. :)
The reason why wamerican is standard is that an american basic wordlist has been part of most UNIX systems for years and, after the reasoning about the wamerican standard priority, former wenglish maintainer considered that a wordlist should always be part of a basic system. That might make wamerican useful in Debian Edu. Regarding the Recommends/Suggests, all other ispell dicts just suggest the related wordlist, after dict-common policy, I do not see why things should be different for iamerican and wamerican. ispell package however, should recommend a wordlist for the reasons pointed out by David. I think that the extra importance of wamerican is better addressed by keeping its standard priority and the generic recommendadion of a wordlist by ispell than by forcing it be an iamerican recommends. So, I am for using suggests for iamerican and ibritish, and keeping the generic recommends in the ispell package. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
