These fonts are part of the desktop-common seed. They are included in
all Ubuntu flavors and cannot be selectively excluded by Xubuntu. If you
want to remove these packages after installation, some variation of the
below command should work for you.
sudo apt remove fonts-beng* fonts-deva*
** Changed in: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1590333
Title:
xubuntu cluttering the system with useless fonts
To manage
These font packages are recommended packages, and can be easily
uninstalled (or not installed in the first place with --no-install-
recommends).
$ apt depends xubuntu-desktop
xubuntu-desktop
...
Depends: fonts-dejavu-core
Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf
...
Recommends: fonts-indic