4 years later still an issue. Just my 3 cents: perhaps move font dependencies from `*-desktop` metapackages to correct `language-pack-*` packages? You already have some suitable intermediate metapackages, like `fonts-indic` or `fonts-lao`, just create such sets for, say, `fonts- cyryllic`, `fonts-japanese`, etc.
For me there's not much difference in understanding if Chinese/Japanese/Hindu/Arab/Georgian/Korean/Kannada/Lao/* text renders as box-placeholders or as a correct font. I don't understand a word in either case. It is not that I am missing disk space or net bandwidth, it is just my eyes bleeding on each font-selection dialog until I do a clean-up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42926 Title: Too many fonts are included in the default install Status in edubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in Baltix: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop There are 100+ fonts installed with a normal *Ubuntu install. This is way too many fonts, many including Latin characters from other standard fonts therefore all looking alike for Latin script. Some packages install decorative fonts or experimental fonts which should be in other packages. This report is there to keep track of the specific bugs in each font package required by *ubuntu-desktop. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edubuntu-meta/+bug/42926/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
