Subject: Re: location of ispell files
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/03/2003 10:28:06
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:

>hi,
>
>On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:01:06PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>>
>> The ispell-* packages install files to lib/, like:
>>   lib/slovak.aff
>>   lib/deutsch.hash
>>   lib/americanmed+.hash
>>
>> It seems like this should at least have a sub-directory called "ispell".
>> (For example, Debian does usr/lib/ispell/americanmed+.hash and
>> usr/lib/ispell/deutsch.hash.)
>>
>> Or better yet, place in share directory. (Is this something that can be
>> shared over architectures, if that matters?).
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Can we switch to share/ispell/ ? (After pkgsrc freeze is okay with me.)
>
>the hash files are (at least) endian dependent and are not text files at
>all, so libdata/ispell sounds like the right place to me.
>
>other than this, i am all for moving them out from lib/.

Agreed completely, fwiw.

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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