ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Kei,
>
> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Hi Kei,
>>>
>>> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:
>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/dictionaries.scm (hunspell-en-US): New variable.
>>>
>>> On the same day I added this one and a couple of other dictionaries:
>>>
>>>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=085bcca313c3827f7c56e7c345d4606588db9085
>>>
>>> The package I committed builds the Hunspell list “from source”.
>>>
>>> Let me know whether we should adjust things and what you think of it.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Ludo’.
>>
>> I definitely like the generality and flexibility of this patch
>> better. To get the dictionary to work in LibreOffice I had to install
>> the .dic file as well [0], but once I did that everything seemed to work
>> as expected.
>>
>> [0]:
>>   (mkdir-p myspell)
>> + (install-file ,(string-append "speller/" language ".dic")
>> +               hunspell)
>>   (install-file ,(string-append "speller/" language ".aff")
>>                 hunspell)
>
> Nice (I thought Hunspell used exclusively the .aff files.)
> OK for this patch!
>
> The hunspell-dict-fr* packages include both .aff and .dic, so that
> should be fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Is this log message okay? I'm not sure how we handle changes to package
template functions.