mozc support in the default ISO

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 24 02:02:52 UTC 2017


On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Aren't packages, which are recommended by packages in the live seed,
> automatically included on the ISO? Or is it possible to explicitly exclude
> recommended packages?

An alternate recommends could work.

> I tested without mozc-utils-gui, and was able to select between different
> modes and produce beautiful characters. One difference I noticed when
> installing mozc-utils-gui was that also a 'tools' menu showed up in the
> language menu.

Oh, I had to log out and log back in to see that. The extra Tools menu
is useful.

> * If we still have qt5, why do you keep the question open?

qt5 needs to stay in main for now but maybe it doesn't need to be on
the live ISO. Dropping it could save maybe 45 MB?

> * If mozc-utils-gui would be moved from the ISO somehow, I think we'd need
> to let pkg_depends pull it explicitly, and then it would need to be in
> 'supported', right?

Yes, probably.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha



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