Talk:Spell (Unix)
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Use of "most" without source[edit]
There are a lot of Linux distributions. Rather than asserting (without WP:RS) that "most" include, it would be easier to comment that the package is available for most of them. That way you don't have to do WP:OR to support the point. TEDickey (talk) 14:38, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
- I changed "most" to "many". In my opinion with modern Linux distributions, "a package is available" and "included" are the same thing. Nobody really cares which packages are installed by default; If some distribution doesn't always install a C compiler by default (and only does this when you ask it to), would you say that this distribution "doesn't include a C compiler"? I don't think so. Nyh (talk) 11:36, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
- Just glancing over my logs, it seems that Fedora doesn't install "spell" by default, and neither does FreeBSD. As I recall, Red Hat doesn't provide spell except as the alternative "aspell". Given that, "most" might be harder to support. aspell is a different program, with its own topic, and shouldn't be used to support a statement of popularity of spell. WP:RS of course is the way to go. TEDickey (talk) 22:59, 10 August 2011 (UTC)