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regarding inappropriate dependence of libpango on libthai
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Package: libpango1.0-0
Version: 1.20.2-2
many programs depend on libpango
many non-Thai people use such programs
therefore support for Thai language should be decoupled
from libpango's core; libpango should not depend on libthai
- Joachim
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Hi
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008, j.wuttke wrote:
> There are many languages with non-latin character, and each of them is used
> by many people - but very few people need support for more than a few of them.
Check out "dpkg -L xkb-data", "ls /usr/share/locale", "ls
/usr/share/man" etc.
Would there be a large size difference between pango with thai and
pango without thai, I could consider going the extra efforts to
maintain a more complex packaging and tell random other maintainers to
update their deps to pull thai (e.g. installer people, other thai
support packages etc.). However given the relative small size of this
support, especially when the target system runs libpango, I don't think
it's worth the efforts.
The rest of your logic is similarly flawed in that you believe Debian
has packages split for all possible combinations which is simply not
the case; it's split based on human expertise of the best compromise
for the current use cases of Debian.
I don't see any serious problem to solve here, so I'm closing this bug;
there are far better ways to save disk space than looking at pango if
that's what you care about.
Bye
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Loïc Minier
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