CJK
During an experiment, I needed to install Fedora 12. I made a few mistakes:
- I went with the netinstall. Unlike Debian's netinstall, Fedora's is very slow.
- The installer was a bit sliggish under KVM, and so I accidentally clicked though the window that let me unselect Gnome. So it's installing the whole shebang.
- For whatever reason, it is installing CJK fonts. I do not speak either of those languages, and therefore they are useless to me. Furthermore, I've been told that something in the neighborhood of 20% of Fedora users make use of CJK. That just sounds wrong. Why install a package by default that only 20% of your userbase will benefit from? Aren't there more useful packages?
*Are* they useless? Would you rather see boxes or question marks? At least, you can then tell Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text apart and get some more context.
Comment by Benjamin Kudria — November 29, 2009 @ 01:33
Note that I didn't say that CJK fonts were universally useless - they are just useless to me. Knowing the language doesn't really help me since I can't read any of them (distinguising between them is trivial - at least most of the time).
I ended my post with a question: Aren't there more useful packages? In other words, packages that more people will benefit from.
Comment by JeffPC — November 29, 2009 @ 05:08