Proposal moving *spell dicts to ports/textproc/*spell/dicts

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Sun Dec 5 14:49:37 UTC 2010


> > Hello,
> >
> >> As I said some weeks ago I personally don't like much the use of
> >> ports/{french,chinese,whatever}/ directories. I saw that openbsd
> >> created sub directories in the aspell port. I think this is a really
> >> good idea, it's really easier to find.
> >>
> >> I don't think german/ispell french/aspell textproc/gu-aspell are
> >> really easy to find.
> >>
> >> I propose creating a ports/textproc/aspell/dicts and same for
> >> textproc/ispell and textproc/hunspell and moving every spellings ports
> >> to these directories.
> >
> > I don't know about hunspell and ispell, but aspell's dictionaries are
> > maintained and updated independently, at different dates: its why these
> > are separate ports.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Th. Thomas.
> >
> 
> Yes but I don't want to make one big dict/ port. I would like to move
> all aspell languages ports into aspell/dicts/ and then you go under
> ports/textproc/aspell/dicts/fr && make install for example :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Demelier David

Problem: 
	Scripts assuming 2 levels for all ports.
	Paths such as */*/pkg-plist would no longer be complete.

Cheers,
Julian
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