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Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?

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On Thu, 2024-12-05 at 13:28 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Well, it seems most of the people who are complaining about the
> dependency (Depends / Recommends / Suggests) inflation are primarily
> complaining about the disk space thatis involved.

Localization is not only about disk space, but also manuals, spell
checking, input method tools, fonts etc. being scattered all over the
system.

It does not make sense that everyone has to select his spell checker
language from 50+ options he does not speak.

Particularly annoying is that Thai terminal (xiterm+thai), which is
preinstalled in Debian desktop and appears in launchers such as Gnome
Shell when searching for terminals.
Most people never use it. I even doubt that many Thai users use it
since it is ancient and any terminal should support UTF-8 by now.

Regards
Stephan

PS: I use various languages (de_DE, en_US, de_CH and id_ID), but I
prefer to install them manually.

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Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 16:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? sre4ever@free.fr - 2024-12-05 17:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 18:30 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 19:30 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:10 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 22:40 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:50 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> - 2024-12-05 23:20 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 23:50 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2024-12-06 07:30 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de> - 2024-12-06 13:00 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2024-12-06 13:40 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-12-07 12:50 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2024-12-07 16:30 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2024-12-05 23:10 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2024-12-07 00:00 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 21:20 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> - 2024-12-06 10:30 +0100
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