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Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

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Hello

> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 10:04 AM
> From: "The Wanderer" <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?
>
> What if someone sends you a document that has one or more words written
> in Thai? In order to be able to display that document correctly, the
> computer will need code that knows how to handle the Thai language.
> Whether that code is in libthai, or in a more general library, or
> embedded directly in whatever program it is that's reading the document,
> it's still there.
>
> Even if you can be sure you'll never have any reason to want to read a
> document that contains Thai, the same thing applies for every other
> language that doesn't just use the same character set, etc., as English.
> Most of them don't have sufficiently unusual and/or complex rules that
> they need a dedicated library to handle them, as Thai apparently does,
> but they do need something to handle whatever rules there may be.
>
So why not create libraries for Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian (Khmer) languages? Why don't we have libburmese, liblaotian and libkhmer and make them essential dependencies for libpango?

Best regards.

Stella

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Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-13 14:20 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-14 11:30 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-14 13:50 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-15 19:00 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2022-02-15 20:00 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-15 20:30 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-16 03:10 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-16 14:40 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-16 14:50 +0100
              Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-17 07:10 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-16 15:10 +0100
              Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-16 16:40 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-16 21:40 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 06:50 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-17 10:50 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 11:00 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-17 10:50 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 11:00 +0100
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                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 09:30 +0100
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