Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 13:47 +0100, arne anka a écrit : 
> Package: libpango1.0-0
> Version: 1.26.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> is there something special about thai, forcing everybody to install
> libthai?
> i don't see libpango depending on chinese (having _far_ more writers),
> russian or any other non-latin-based system.
It’s just that thai is particularly complicated in terms of
word-wrapping, hyphenation, and so on. Most other languages can be
handled with the generic pango rules.

> so far that dependency forces me to use more space the necessary on
> limited devices like the om freerunner.

I guess we could split the thai module in a separate binary package if
someone is interested enough to do this change, but it’s not a very big
dependency.

Cheers,
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling

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