Space wasted by Non English Packages shipped by Default on Fedora 17.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jun 25 17:11:57 UTC 2012


Julian Leyh (julian at vgai.de) said: 
> It is not. Trust me. You only see the package groups as "installed",
> because you have packages installed that are on the list of that
> group.
> 
> For example, you mentioned the "Arabic Support" group. This group
> includes "dejavu-sans-fonts" as "default"-packages. You most probably
> have this font package installed. To remove the group from being
> listed as "installed" you would have to remove it. You don't want
> that, do you?

To elaborate - dejavu-sans-fonts is the default font for English. However,
it also happens to have Arabic, Greek, accented European, etc. characters,
so 'support' for those languages will show up as being installed.

Bill


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