[Bug 584438] [NEW] (Scim) Input support requires irrelevant packages

[Nancy Pelosi]

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

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(Scim) Input support requires irrelevant packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584438
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