Hello > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 10:04 AM > From: "The Wanderer" <wande...@fastmail.fm> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is > the best course of action? > > What if someone sends you a document that has one or more words written > in Thai? In order to be able to display that document correctly, the > computer will need code that knows how to handle the Thai language. > Whether that code is in libthai, or in a more general library, or > embedded directly in whatever program it is that's reading the document, > it's still there. > > Even if you can be sure you'll never have any reason to want to read a > document that contains Thai, the same thing applies for every other > language that doesn't just use the same character set, etc., as English. > Most of them don't have sufficiently unusual and/or complex rules that > they need a dedicated library to handle them, as Thai apparently does, > but they do need something to handle whatever rules there may be. > So why not create libraries for Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian (Khmer) languages? Why don't we have libburmese, liblaotian and libkhmer and make them essential dependencies for libpango?
Best regards. Stella
