Localization versus Requires: aspell-en

[Florian Festi]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> We have some doubt about the Requires: of a default localization.
> 
> For example, eclipse-texlipse needs aspell
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506431
> 
> By default I chose aspell-en,
> 
> # For Spell-Check (choosing default : English)
> Requires:       aspell-en
> 
> Is there any macro that automatically selects the proper %{lang} of a
> Requires: ?
> e.g aspell-%{lang} ?

Requires and Provides are static (calculated at build time). So there is no 
way to pick the "right" language at install time.

Better support for languages would be good but I don't see this happening 
any time soon.

Florian