fedora-workstation

#443 Don't use the Moby Project for /usr/share/dict
Closed by tpopela. Opened by ananas-comosus.

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The Moby Project doesn't officially exist anymore, so Fedora uses an Internet Archive snapshot of it for the dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory. This doesn't seem very reliable, as the snapshot might become unavailable at some point, specially with Internet Archive being threatened by lawsuits.

GNOME OS Nightly and Arch are using GNU Aspell. Maybe Fedora can also use it?

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We already should be using Aspell and Hunspell dictionaries, I think?

Please note that Aspell has been deprecated in Fedora. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation

We are using Hunspell dictionaries for spellchecking in Fedora.

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Well, I guess we shouldn't switch /usr/share/dict to GNU Aspell, then.

I made the title more generic now instead of suggesting to use GNU Aspell.
Edited by ananas-comosus

This issue has implications for every Fedora edition, and will surely require a Fedora change proposal. Workstation Working Group is unlikely to put in the effort to advance a change proposal itself, so somebody would need to be willing to write one.

But we don't actually know what the next step is here. It's unclear to me whether aspell is a better option than Moby project, or whether other options exist.

I think next step here is probably discussion on @devel mailing list.

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/443

Please continue any further discussion there.

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- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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