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

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 17:15:50 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

And if you use the web you really do want those characters being
installed— otherwise you'll have hexboxes or blank spaces showing up
all over Wikipedia articles or in people's usernames on forums.


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