[ITP] words - Dictionary file

[David Stacey]

On 13/07/16 14:30, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 13/07/2016 14:57, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/13/2016 4:17 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 13/07/2016 00:26, David Stacey wrote:
>>>> On 12/07/2016 23:22, David Stacey wrote:
>>>>> My good deed for the day. See
>>>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00129.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Based heavily on the Fedora package of the same name.
>>>>
>>>> Schtoopid Thunderbird. Let's try those links again.
>>>>
>>>> # noarch:
>>>> BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/noarch/release 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> wget --no-check-certificate --no-host-directories --force-directories
>>>> --cut-dirs=5 \
>>>> ${BASEURL}/words/setup.hint \
>>>> ${BASEURL}/words/words-3.0-1-src.tar.xz \
>>>> ${BASEURL}/words/words-3.0-1.tar.xz
>>>>
>>>> Dave.
>>>>
>>>
>>> it looks fine.
>>>
>>> Added the package to cygwin-pkg-maint
>>
>> This needs to be coordinated with Warren's proposal:
>>
>> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-07/msg00015.html
>>
>> Ken
>>
>
> the two packages seem to provide different word lists.
> In theory both can coexist
>

Not as they stand - both packages provide the /usr/share/dict/words symlink.

I've done a little digging. Here's where /usr/share/dict/words comes 
from on various distros:

   - words - ALT, Arch?, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, OpenMandriva, ROSA
   - bsd-games - Slackware (that's just plain wrong!)
   - wamerican - Ubuntu
   - Not present at all - Debian?

'miscfiles' is available on Debian and Ubuntu, but nether provides the 
/usr/share/dict/words symlink.

Obviously, we don't have to follow any of that - this is just an 
observation of what other distros do.

How should Cygwin proceed? Is this a case for alternatives, or is that a 
little over the top for a dictionary? Should one of the packages drop 
the symlink? Do we need both 'miscfiles' and 'words' packages? Should we 
drop 'words' if 'miscfiles' provides a superset of the data?

Any thoughts?

Dave.