Hi, I am seeing the same issue with a daily build of Raring Ringtail (13.04) :
1/ Install a daily build on a USB disk and test it in French with persistent data on.
2/ Launch gnome-language-selector, it will ask you to download the remaining files to get a proper translated version.
3/ Accept that and discover that it downloads many files for languages other than English (en) or French (fr).
In fact, when you try Ubuntu in French, the gnome-language-selector also has (at least) Brazilian, Portuguese, Chinese-simplified and German selected by default.
I have seen the following files being downloaded for example :
4/ So then, uncheck all languages other than French and English, and discover that - without any warning - it will remove a lot of programs that are not language files.
Hi, I am seeing the same issue with a daily build of Raring Ringtail (13.04) :
1/ Install a daily build on a USB disk and test it in French with persistent data on.
2/ Launch gnome-language- selector, it will ask you to download the remaining files to get a proper translated version.
3/ Accept that and discover that it downloads many files for languages other than English (en) or French (fr).
In fact, when you try Ubuntu in French, the gnome-language- selector also has (at least) Brazilian, Portuguese, Chinese-simplified and German selected by default.
I have seen the following files being downloaded for example :
hunspell-de-ch
hunspell-de-de
hunspell-en-ca
hunspell-fr
hyphen-de
hyphen-en-us
hyphen-fr
libreoffice -l10n-de -l10n-en- gb -l10n-es -l10n-fr -l10n-pt -l10n-pt- br
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice -help-de -help-en- gb -help-es -help-fr -help-pt -help-pt- br
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice
libreoffice
4/ So then, uncheck all languages other than French and English, and discover that - without any warning - it will remove a lot of programs that are not language files.
I have seen for example :
Removing bluez-cups driver- postscript- hp driver- hpcups driver- gutenprint driver- sag-gdi driver- ptouch driver- pnm2ppa driver- splix org-hyphenation
Removing printer-
Removing hplip
Removing printer-
Removing printer-
Removing indicator-printers
Removing cups-browsed
Removing cups
Removing cups-filters
Removing ubuntu-desktop
Removing evince
Removing fonts-arphic-uming
Removing printer-
Removing printer-
Removing printer-
Removing ghostscript-x
Removing printer-
Removing ghostscript-cups
Removing ghostscript
Removing ibus-sunpinyin
Removing ibus-table-wubi
Removing libevview3-3
Removing libevdocument3-4
Removing libspectre1:i386
Removing libgs9
Removing openoffice.
Removing poppler-data
It's pretty strange and probably not very "clean"...