Subject: Re: Regressions in dict-client.
To: None <groo@old-ones.com>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/18/2005 21:18:13
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 groo@old-ones.com wrote:

>There are a couple of problems with dict-client, with respect to how it used
>to function, and how it now functions.
>
>1.  --enable-dictorg functionality was lost.
>    I'm not sure if this was explicitly needed in past versions of
>    dict-client, but out of the box, dict 1.5.5/rf on NetBSD 2.0_BETA
>    would query dict.org without any existing dict.conf.
>
>2.  The makefile needs to substitute where dict(1) expects to find its
>    configuration file in the produced manpage.  The manpage referes to
>    /etc/dict.org, but of course in my particular pkgsrc installation,
>    it's going to /usr/pkg/etc/dict.org.
>
>So #2 is relatively minor, but #1 is a bit of a frustration when you need to
>install dict and look something up quick.

1.) is now fixed.  2.) is not.
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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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