OpenFTS ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135859
It has a USE flag for the snowball stemmer. I can take care of
packaging for Gentoo if it will free up time for you to work on other
distros.
John
PS, upstream package size isn't, and shouldn't be an issue, it should
be left to the packaging systems to discretely fetch what is needed.
On 6/7/06, Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> That said, I don't necessarily mean that all stemmers must be included
> in CVS or such. It should just be simpler for the database administrator
> to install ispell or stemmer 'modules'. A non-plus-ultra solution would
> be to provide packages for each language (in debian or fedora, etc..).
>
> I'd be willing to help with such a project. I have experience with
> tsearch2 as well as with gentoo and debian packaging. I can't help with
> rpm, though.
>
> Regards
>
> Markus
>
> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> > We got a lot requests about including stemmers and ispell dictionaries
> > for all accessible languages into tsearch2. I understand that tsearch2
> > will be closer to end user. But sources of snowball stemmers is about
> > 800kb, each ispell dictionaries will takes about 0.5-2M. All sizes are
> > sized with compression. I am afraid that is too big size...
> >
> > What are opinions?
> >
>
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