Public bug reported:
I'm using the Kubuntu 9.04 Daily Live CD of 19 April. After the
installation I removed all OpenOffice packages, I wanted to use KOffice
and save space. Then I accessed the region and language settings in
System Settings. I clicked "Install New Language" and chose the Dutch
language.
According to the dpkg.log file, this installed thunderbird-locale-en and
thunderbird-locale-nl, which in turn probably depended on Thunderbird
itself. Quite a lot of OpenOffice's packages were also installed again,
as well as GIMP help files for Dutch and English and English Evolution
documentation files.
This is madness, why do the language-support meta packages have to
depend on packages like OpenOffice, Thunderbird, GIMP and others which I
do not want to use and don't have installed? Why does the Language
Installer have to pollute my system with junk packages which I am not
going to use?
Would it be possible to design a better Language Installer application,
which users can trust not to pollute their system? All I wanted was
spell checking support for the Dutch language. Maybe the Language
Installer could ask some questions for which applications language
support should be installed?
** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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language pack installer installs thunderbird
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363749
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