Removing --disable-aspell explicitly adds a dependency to the aspell and friends, that means everyone using contrib/pidgin would have to install aspell. I guess we could patch configure to silently determine if dictionary support should be included or not. But this kind of decisions should be made by the user imho.

@James
we can't expect every user to maintain their own port versions (and effectively CRUX flavours), that's why we need sane defaults, and sane defaults doesn't mean "bare minimum".


2014-02-09 21:10 GMT+01:00 James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>:
I'll say again.

prt-get edit pidgin
... remove --disable-aspell
prt-get depinst aspell
prt-get update -fr pidgin

This is not hard guys. CRUX is not meant to "hand hold"
you through every step of the process :) If you wanted a
distro that does that there's Ubuntu, Arch, etc, etc :)

IHMO Ports have always been (unwritten rule?) the
bare minimum for the functionality the software
represents.

cheers
James



On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Danny Rawlins <d.rawlins@datafast.net.au> wrote:
On 09/02/14 23:00, Bart³omiej Palmowski wrote:
pidgin port has --disable-aspell so it wont work without modifying  this port


2014-02-09 12:06 GMT+01:00 James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>:
Can't you just install aspell/ispell
and rebuild pidgin like I've done so many
times?

No need to haul in another dependency :)


cheers
James



On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Bart³omiej Palmowski <rotwang@crux.org.pl> wrote:
Hi,

I would like to know if any contrib/pidgin users would like to have aspell support. It would add aspell and friends to the list of dependencies.

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I've manually removed that --disable-aspell line and recompiled. it be nice if the code was patched to be enabled if found or disabled if aspell was not found.

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