On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 3:47 AM Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote:
> I noticed that my F30 installs are coming out far larger than my F29 > installs (by 3GB or so) and did some digging into why. > > With F30 we switched away from having groups named like "korean-support" > that you could install to get input methods and fonts needed to display > a language and instead we have metapackages named like "langpacks-ko". > These metapackages have (generally) weak dependencies on the fonts and > input methods as before. But other packages have reverse weak > dependencies on the langpacks, which causes far more to get pulled in > than was previously installed. For example, each libreoffice langpack > has a "supplements" weak reverse dependency on the base "langpacks" > metapackage. > > All of this seems fine, but my original goal was to be able to properly > display, and perhaps input, various languages. But now I get > translations and help files and such as well. Not just for libreoffice, > but for eclipse, glibc, all of KDE as well. And I also get > autocorrection rules, spelling dictionaries, hyphenation rules, and > terreract OCR recognition data as well. Some of those aren't small, and > the end result is that I need to bump up the size of / quite a bit. > > Note that turning off install_weak_deps is not an option because for > most of the langpacks, _all_ of the langpack are weak. (Some do have > hard font dependencies, and I'm not sure if this inconsistency is > intentional.) > > So it seems we lost the simple "here are our suggested Korean fonts and > an input method" and instead the only thing you can say is "I want > everything possible to be available in Korean". Is there any way to > improve the granularity here? Perhaps by having "light" and "heavy" > langpacks, or splitting them by usage (translations versus simple > display of text)? > > Agree! We probably need more discussions (I'm quite interested to work on this). This is one of the points for https://pagure.io/flock/issue/164 > For now I guess I will simply extract the list of fonts and input > methods I want from the langpack specfile and stop installing the actual > langpack packages. > > - J< > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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