language-selector installs missing packages without opt-out possibility.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Going to System, Administration, Language support and checking the input methods option (press Install/Remove languages to access menu) for at least east asian languages will force annoying and irrelevant packages to be installed in Lucid (10.04).
It suddenly wants to install:
gimp-help-common
gimp-help-en
gnome-user-guide-en
I already had gimp installed and it was happy the way it was without this crap.
I don't have room for these useless packages and I really don't have bandwidth to be downloading them on my dialup-like Clearwire connection. This is not an isolated problem. There are a lot of nonsensical dependencies for packages in ubuntu, but this one is pretty outstanding as language input has nothing to do with the above files.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 22 22:05:46 2010
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly
firefox-
firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → maverick-alpha-2 |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Moving to language-selector as Firefox doesn't control this.