removing the langsupport groups from F18+

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 27 15:53:44 UTC 2012


Akira TAGOH (tagoh at redhat.com) said: 
> One more thing is, current @fonts group has minimal sets of the packages only
> according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml#Fonts
> basically. so the language group may has some fonts packages to replace the
> _distribution-wide default fonts_ with the preferable typefaces.

In what cases does it do this? My reading of the fonts groups were that it
only ever installed additional fonts that were options to the defaults, not
new defaults. (Especially since most any desktop user who installed a
langsupport group had @fonts installed anyway.)

> if we also change the policy of "one font per scripts" to the "one font per
> languages" or so, it may affects to the disk size after the installation or iso
> size for Live and/or some spins perhaps.

I'm willing to test to see how much space increase this causes - I think
we're OK with both KDE and GNOME, unsure about XFCE/LXDE.

> | After looking at current comps, the language-specific applications
> | might be an issue after removal, such as iok. also relevant bug for
> | reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847500

iok is required by ibus-m17n; is that expected to change?

Bill


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