Hello Dearie I am happy to hear from you again and hope that everything's fine with you and your family.
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 6:23 AM > From: "David" <bouncingc...@gmail.com> > To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is > the best course of action? > > > But, why do you care? There may be many packages installed > that you will never notice that you will never use. > Why pick on this one? > > libthai appears to not occupy much disk space: > > > So there's hardly any win for the effort. > Indeed, you asked a very pertinent question. "Why pick on this one?", you asked. It just happens that this file was in my installed Debian. I have checked for other non-English files and found none other than Thai files. "But, why do you care?" you wondered. I care because I am worried that it may contain poorly designed code or backdoors that enable root privileges without my explicit intervention. Nobody has bothered to audit the Thai files that I mentioned for integrity and probable malicious activity. > Alternatively, don't install lxqt-core. Only install what you want. > Some ideas here: > https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian > > Naturally this kind of thing takes time and effort which you may > or may not find is worthwhile depending on your goals, and > what you choose to spend productive time doing. > You're right. I don't have the time nor the intellectual capacity to customize my Debian setup. I'll just have to look for other ways to install a custom Debian without foreign-language files.