Reducing fonts on KDE-LiveCD

Sebastian Vahl ml at deadbabylon.de
Mon Sep 17 22:00:12 UTC 2007


Am Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:09:53 -0500
schrieb Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:

> Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Due to some changes in the past (anaconda requires zenity requires
> > yelp requires firefox / wallpaper is now in gnome-backgrounds which
> > requires desktop-backgrounds-basic) the size of the kde livecd is
> > exploding. I think the easiest way of saving some space is to
> > remove some fonts. But I need some help with this to not remove
> > some essential fonts for some people.
> 
> Heck, since we make no bones about the fact that kde-livecd is
> English only, most of the following could be candidates for omission:
> 
> > cjkunifonts-ukai
> > cjkunifonts-uming
> > fonts-arabic
> > fonts-bengali
> > fonts-chinese
> > fonts-gujarati
> > fonts-hebrew
> > fonts-hebrew-fancy
> > fonts-hindi
> > fonts-ISO8859-2
> > fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi
> > fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi
> > fonts-japanese
> > fonts-kannada
> > fonts-KOI8-R
> > fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi
> > fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi
> > fonts-korean
> > fonts-malayalam
> > fonts-oriya
> > fonts-punjabi
> > fonts-sinhala
> > fonts-tamil
> > fonts-telugu
> > fonts-truetype-apl
> > fonts-x11-apl
> > jomolhari-fonts
> > sazanami-fonts-gothic
> > sazanami-fonts-mincho

So would it be a safe option to remove this fonts? Or does this maybe
affect people using some of this fonts if they want to watch a website
in this language?

Sebastian
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