Un-asked-for-language support

[Jesse Keating]

On Nov 24, 2009, at 16:23, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Here is at least a partial list of language material that got  
> installed
> unnecessarily and unwantedly when I installed F12 on a plain laptop.
>
> bunch of packages names starting with m17n
> bunch of packages names starting with kacst
> packages names starting with un-core
> package names containing hangul, Canna, pinyin
> cjkuni-uming-fonts
> jomolhari-fonts
> khmeros-base-fonts  khmeros-fonts-common
> abyssinica-fonts
> paktype-tehreer-fonts   sinc-meera-fonts
>
> Almost none of these have any dependencies requiring
> their presence.  Would someone please investigate why all
> these get installed by default with recent distributions?
>
>

They come from the "fonts" group.

--
Jes