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Re: [ITP] words - Dictionary file
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.
Schtoopid Thunderbird. Let's try those links again.
# 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
Dave.
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
Ken
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.
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?
Any thoughts?
Dave.