On Saturday 10 June 2006 14:05, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> Note that khtml's libthai integration isn't really new - it's been
> there since late 2004. However, we've only had a libthai port in
> FreeBSD for 2 months and I was made aware of it (and the benefit it
> has for khtml) roughly about the same time. Another example of KDE
> using an external package in order to achieve some specific language
> support is Kspell2 (also in kdelibs), which requires hspell in order
> to support proper hebrew spell checking. However, FreeBSD's hspell
> port is not up-to-date enough, otherwise we would depend on it.

But why is it a requirement instead of an option? By being a 
requirement, one is saying that KDE will not work without it. But KDE 
has obviously been working without since late 2004. Ditto for hspell. 
Surely this can be made into a knob, even if it has to be on be default 
of political reasons.

-- 
David Johnson
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