Re: Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora!

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> [This is a part rant, but posting anyway to hopefully get some feedback]
>>
>> Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary it 
>> looks like Aspell is in real danger of being completely removed from 
>> Fedora in favor of standardizing every applications to use one Spell 
>> Checker for every language.  Even if it is not the best spell checker 
>> for the language.  For the English language I strongly believe Aspell 
>> is the best spell checker.  I'm afraid that other Linux distributions 
>> may follow suit and Aspell may become completely unused, even though 
>> it is the best spell checker for the English language.
>>
>> More generally I believe standardizing on one spell checker is short 
>> cited.  While I agree it is stupid to have multiple dictionaries for 
>> the same language installed, I believe it is even stupider to only 
>> use the same spell checker for all languages to avoid this problem.  
>> Instead the best spell checker for a given language should be used 
>> for all applications using something like Enchant 
>> (http://www.abisource.com/enchant/).
>>
>> If anyone on this list have used Fedora 9 or are more in tune with 
>> Fedora development I would like to know.
>>
>>   1) How likely is it that Aspell will be removed from future releases.
>
> FYI, considering that LyX still depend on aspell, I don't think this 
> will happen soon.
But I just checked and it seems that LyX is not in the default feature 
list :-/

Abdel.