Comment 7 for bug 1605571

On 2016-07-23 07:59, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Gunnar, the live CD seeds are a different thing from package
> dependencies.

I know that. The desktop file in the seed is reflected in the package dependencies, while the live file isn't. In the case of Lubuntu the fcitx stuff is included in the desktop file, which is why my command above works to show which packages they use.

These are two possible approaches for MATE:

1. Include the needed packages (not only fcitx-bin) in the live seed, having them removed by Ubiquity at install as Aron mentioned for non-CJKV installs, and keep "auto" in im-config/gnome-language-selector.

2. Include the needed packages in the desktop seed instead as Lubuntu does, so they are also installed by Ubiquity, and change to "cjkv" in im-config/gnome-language-selector so fcitx isn't started/configured by default for non-CJKV users.

With the latter approach the fcitx menu won't be shown in live sessions for non-CJKV users, which probably is good.

> So if Martin wants fcitx to be there in the live CD, but not in the
> installed system for those that don't need it, I think he can just
> include the packages I mentioned in the seeds file.

The reason why I showed which packages Lubuntu uses was that I think (not tested) that a couple of additional packages are needed.