Dependencies of ubuntu-desktop

[Alexander Butenko]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

1. ubuntu-desktop always depends on a big pack of internation fonts. This fonts use more then 100Mb of space
and also big count of fonts in the system slow down the work of freetype.

I'm suggesting to remove them from the ubuntu-desktop package and put them as a dependency of a needed language-pack-XXXX or put them in Recomends.

Here list of font packages:
ttf-arabeyes
ttf-arphic-ukai
ttf-arphic-uming
ttf-bengali-fonts
ttf-devanagari-fonts
ttf-gujarati-fonts
ttf-indic-fonts
ttf-kannada-fonts
ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-kochi-mincho
ttf-malayalam-fonts
ttf-oriya-fonts
ttf-punjabi-fonts
ttf-tamil-fonts
ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg

2. Openoffice. A lots of ubuntu users use abiword/gnumeric instead of openoffice. Can it be kicked into Recomends?

[Alexander Butenko (avb)]

sorry, all this stuff is already in recomends.
i just commented out the setting of apt to install recomended packages.

But what depends on 1) i think this a really good idea to put ttf- as a depends to a language-pack- package.
If developers dont think so, bug can be closed. If the proposal is intresting i can write patches to a language-pack-* control configs.

[sojourner (itsmealso2)]

it may say recomends in synaptic but try to delete one and it wants to delete ubuntu desktop , and not only the dictionaries but many other irksom and needless apps exhibit this , please prune the dependencies of ubuntu destop to true dependencies, not every piece of crap in the repos.

[bernstein (bernstein)]

this has been done in feisty !!! these fonts are listed as recommends !
to sojourner : synaptic and apt do not allow you to remove recommended packages, it treats them as dependecies, however they can be removed (or never installed) with aptitude ! Or like avb hinted at, you can make apt (and synaptic?) treat recommends as recommends by editing configuration files.

[bernstein (bernstein)]

view here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2575753&postcount=24

[Alexander Butenko (avb)]

yes, everything is right. I think we can close the ticket