[Bug 42926] Re: Too many fonts are included in the default install

[Pawel Kraszewski]

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.

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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.

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