Please excuse me if I am posting this rant to a wrong mailing list. Does anyone know why ispell had to be replaced with aspell in the RedHat Linux 7.x releases? Aspell's "ispell" compatibility program completely messes up the keys that ispell users have come to depend on, and so, it is not really an ispell replacement and, therefore, this program should not be called "ispell". In addition, it seems like the ispell user dictionary files are not compatible with the aspell dictionary files. We have a mixed environment where many non-Linux systems have the real ispell program installed and this is confusing many users. My initial solution to this problem was to remove the aspell package and install ispell in /usr/local/bin. However, in RedHat Linux 7.3, it seems that there is a dozen or so packages that actually depend on aspell and I wouldn't want to remove those just to get rid of this bogus ispell program. One possibility that I am considering is replacing /usr/bin/ispell with a symbolic link to real ispell program. Of course, that might be blown away by installing updates but that can be fixed from the same scripts that we use for installing updates. Still, I am wondering why this pain had to be inflicted on the users. -akop _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
