Bug 1458553 - Don't provide all English dictionaries by default by installing hunspell-en
Summary: Don't provide all English dictionaries by default by installing hunspell-en
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hunspell-en
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Caolan McNamara
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-04 11:53 UTC by Jan Vlug
Modified: 2017-06-05 19:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-06-05 19:41:14 UTC
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Description Jan Vlug 2017-06-04 11:53:06 UTC
Description of problem:

After a fresh installation of Fedora 25 I had many English dictionaries, while I only want en-US and en-UK. As a result of all these dictionaries, there are long dropdownlistboxes in Firefox and Thunderbird when selecting a language.

It seems that all these regional variants of English are pulled in by hunspell-en.

I removed hunspell-en with dnf, which also removed hunspell-en-UK, adding hunspell-en-UK did not pull in hunspell-en.

See more details over here:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/99140/how-can-i-get-rid-of-spellchecker-dictionaries-in-firefox/

Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2017-06-05 19:41:14 UTC
There is a hunspell-en-US which is just en_US hunspell dicts, hunspell-en-GB for just en_GB dicts and a hunspell-en which depends on those two and provides the other variants. Its not a bug for hunspell-en to pull in the others. Its arguable if hunspell-en is in the default install but that's not the packages fault if it it. Perhaps comps or something like that does it.


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