Hello,
I’m trying to make some spring housekeeping and remove unnecessary languages in the Mozilla (Firefox/Thunderbird) spell checkers. Found this: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/remove-firefox-dictionaries/ and messing in the /usr/share/ is not an option in Silverblue.
As I need more than one dictionary (I’m polyglot), fixing one only dictionary in Firefox prefs is also not an option.
I found a way to remove all English variants but en_US that works fine with:
$ rpm-ostree override hunspell-en
But this mess with dependencies for other upgrades. in my case, got wine complaining of no package for the mesa-dri dependency because I blocked the hunspell-en. Removing the override (rpm-ostree override reset hunspell-en) things went back in order concerning dependencies, but also the wide list of English variants in Firefox (I don’t care about en_AU or en_NZ, but I do care about switching quickly from English to Spanish, Portuguese or French in a non-polluted list).
My questions:
- Is there a way to properly remove this hunspell-en package to avoid having ALL English variants spellchecks?
- If not, which is the best way to reach dev team and try to convince them to change dependencies policy so removing a spellchecker don’t mess with other apps install/upgrades?
Linux is supposed to be modular, isn’t it?