Claws-mail
version 3.7.0
Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
Spell checker could not be started.
Couldn't initialize en dictionary:
(null)
Couldn't initialize en speller.
eix app-dicts/*en
[I] app-dicts/aspell-en
Available versions: 0.51.0 0.51.1 6.0.0
Installed versions: 6.0.0(08:11:33 AM 04/15/2008)
Homepage: http://aspell.net
Description: English (US, British, Canadian) language dictionary
for aspell
???
Did someone change an ebuild, or profile or something, without an announcement
somewhere?
<grumble>
I get the feeling, more and more, that there isn't a rudder, or even common
sense. If someone makes changes that, simply put, break systems, shouldn't they
make an effort to advertise it beforehand? With a suggested fix?
</grumble>
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250115
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250573
And even http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1801
So, maybe I'm not the only one who found a problem.
eix app-dicts/*en
[I] app-dicts/aspell-en
Available versions: 0.51.0 0.51.1 6.0.0
Installed versions: 6.0.0(08:11:33 AM 04/15/2008)
Homepage: http://aspell.net
Description: English (US, British, Canadian) language dictionary
for aspell
equery depends app-dicts/aspell-en
[ Searching for packages depending on app-dicts/aspell-en... ]
app-text/aspell-0.60.5 (!linguas_vi & !linguas_uk & !linguas_sv & !linguas_sr &
!linguas_sl & !linguas_sk & !linguas_ru & !linguas_ro & !linguas_pt &
!linguas_pl & !linguas_no & !linguas_nl & !linguas_it & !linguas_is &
!linguas_hr & !linguas_he & !linguas_gl & !linguas_ga & !linguas_fr &
!linguas_fo & !linguas_fi & !linguas_et & !linguas_es & !linguas_eo &
!linguas_en & !linguas_el & !linguas_de & !linguas_da & !linguas_cy &
!linguas_cs & !linguas_ca & !linguas_br & !linguas_bg & !linguas_be &
!linguas_af? app-dicts/aspell-en)
(linguas_en? app-dicts/aspell-en)
app-text/enchant-1.4.2 (aspell? virtual/aspell-dict)
[I] app-text/enchant
Available versions: 1.2.5 1.3.0 1.4.2 {aspell hunspell zemberek}
Installed versions: 1.4.2(07:07:10 PM 01/25/2009)(hunspell -aspell
-zemberek)
Homepage: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
Description: Spellchecker wrapping library
So, what is a user supposed to do in this case? It appears that the profile, or
something, is defaulted to something other than what it did before (aspell -->
hunspell maybe?), but this change maybe wasn't propogated to the user who needs
to do something, I suppose. At least, not this user... where did the change
originate? This was updated yesterday, so I assume this really is the culprit.
Anyway, I put it to the list, should this be something we are told about before
we have to go searching for the solution to yet another ebuild-related problem?
Is there a dev-announce list I should be subscribing to? Why wouldn't those
announcements go here, for example? (Ah, the dead horse isn't moving.)
If so, where is/was it? Anyway, it would seem the solution is to change my
enchant use flags, or build a different set of dictionaries. Shouldn't there be
a post-install check, or something?
alculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] app-text/enchant-1.4.2 USE="hunspell -aspell -zemberek" 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n
Quitting.
lappy ~ # grep enchant /var/lib/portage/world
Geez! I was about to pollute world. Hello, WTF????
app-office/abiword-2.6.4 (spell? >=app-text/enchant-1.2)
app-text/gtkspell-2.0.14 (>=app-text/enchant-1.1.6)
mail-client/claws-mail-3.7.0 (spell? >=app-text/enchant-1.0.0)
So, is abiword spellcheck broken too? Yep.
I just rebuild 'enchant', there were no messages that my system would be broken.
[ebuild R ] app-office/abiword-2.6.4 USE="gnome spell -debug -xml" 0 kB
So, "spell" enabled. Why not working?
Anyway, I don't know the best route to proceed. It seems like 'aspell' is just
orphaned on my system, since it isn't used. I didn't make that choice to orphan
it, or break the spellchecking.
Checking again, nowhere is 'aspell' or 'hunspell' specified in my use flags.
Thoughts, anyone?
Google search causes many hits, no doubt the solution is either to remove
'aspell' and emerge hunspell en dicts, or add 'aspell' use, but since this is a
dependency enabled by default somewhere, why doesn't it try to, or prompt to,
install a proper dictionary if the default changed by devs?
diff enchant-1.4.2.ebuild /usr/portage/app-text/enchant/enchant-1.4.2.ebuild
1c1
< # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
---
> # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
3c3
< # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-text/enchant/enchant-1.4.2.ebuild,v
1.2 2008/07/20 06:04:56 serkan Exp $
---
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-text/enchant/enchant-1.4.2.ebuild,v
> 1.5 2009/01/23 22:37:39 maekke Exp $
14c14
< KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
---
> KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
^^^
Hmm. I think I found the problem, the cause, the culprit:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255691
Well, maybe I'll be the only one to have a problem after all. Indeed, emerging
the 'myspell' dictionary (for 'hunspell', apparently) fixes the problems. I'll
send this anyway, in case it helps someone else save time. :(
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