Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox
Going to System, Administration, Language support and checking the input methods option (press Install/Remove languages to access menu) for at least east asian languages will force annoying and irrelevant packages to be installed in Lucid (10.04). It suddenly wants to install: gimp-help-common gimp-help-en gnome-user-guide-en I already had gimp installed and it was happy the way it was without this crap. I don't have room for these useless packages and I really don't have bandwidth to be downloading them on my dialup-like Clearwire connection. This is not an isolated problem. There are a lot of nonsensical dependencies for packages in ubuntu, but this one is pretty outstanding as language input has nothing to do with the above files. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 Uname: Linux 2.6.34-020634rc6-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat May 22 22:05:46 2010 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid -- (Scim) Input support requires irrelevant packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584438 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs