On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Malcolm Turmel <[email protected]>wrote:
> Its still taking up valuable space. > > All the non-english packages should be optional. > > When I try to remove one of the Package, it tells me its going to also > Uninstall lots of other stuff. > > How would I go about now uninstalling all of them without breaking my > system. > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Julian Leyh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2012/6/25 Malcolm Turmel <[email protected]>: >> > There seems to be support for lots of languages other than English, >> which I >> > don't need, but it seems to be installed by default on Fedora 17. Why? >> >> Package Groups are shown as "installed", as soon as all mandatory >> packages are installed (IIRC at least one package of the group has to >> be installed). Some groups have no mandatory packages at all. Most of >> the language support groups have font packages in their list that can >> already be installed on default system. That way they get displayed as >> "installed". In reality it means "partially installed". >> >> No need to worry. >> >> -- >> If you don't remember something, it never happened... >> If you aren't remembered, you never existed... >> -- >> devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > -- > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > They are probably shipped by default, since there are people around who don't speak english and also use a different set of letters. I think it's good to give them a good out-of-the-box fedora experience. To say if it's safe to remove the packages one would need to know which packages exactly are removed by the yum transaction. Johannes
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