Package kubuntu-desktop requires too many exotic fonts
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kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
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Gutsy |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: kubuntu-desktop
Kubuntu-desktop requires a whole slew of fonts for exotic languages that speakers of Western languages don't need. Fonts for Urdu, Lao, Oriya, Kannada and Thai are all included, as well as less uncommon languages like Arabic and Japanese. For me, these fonts are an inconvenience: none of them is of any use to me, and there's nearly as many included as there are Western fonts. If I remove these fonts, I break kubuntu-desktop, which can cause dist-upgrade to fail. Can't these fonts be rolled into separate language support packages, and be installed only when needed? The installer asks the user's language as its first step, after all. Or at the very least, could they be 'recommended' rather than 'required'?
Confirming and wishlisting this. It would be tough to do exactly what you want, but I am not counting it out. The reason for all of the language fonts is so Kubuntu is "internatialized" out of the box. I never realized that some of them packages are pushing 30+ MB in size once installed.