Thanks you Reuben Thomas, I hope this gets resolved in the best way possible, Unfortunately Arch maintainers have declined looking at this with the following Catch 22 comment: >> FS#68499 - [enchant] Warnings about optional dependencies.>> Reason for closing: Not a bug >> Additional comments about closing: Warnings are not errors. If emacs Flyspell doesn't work upon seeing enchant *warnings*, Flyspell should be fixed As for me, I think I will refrain from reporting more bugs for now. Be safe. On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 10:35 AM Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 03:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> >> Thanks, but I'm not interested in working around installation problems >> of programs we invoke. It's a slippery slope, with never-ending >> additional requests we will have to honor. >> > > The reporter and I seem to have swapped positions on this! > > I believe that the ispell.el code (which I wrote) is buggy: it should not > be incorporating warnings into its output. > > Also, the patch I offered is a simplification of the original code. So, I > don't think we are losing here. > > Eli, I quite agree with your sentiment, and I would certainly not advocate > installing a workaround in Emacs unless there were compelling reasons. > However, I do not see this as a workaround, and as it is also a > simplification, I don't see a problem. > > -- > https://rrt.sc3d.org >