On 9/21/09, gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org wrote:
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Same goes for certain software. I don't have a trace of Blutooth hardware on my system. Certainly the install program must have found that out. Why do I receive updates for Blutooth?
What if you had a bluetooth usb dongle? How does the installer find out about that, other than reading your mind?
Well, Blutooth support could be installed whenever I insert a USB dongle but, to tell you the truth, I wasn't aware of the existence of USB dongles, so I suppose it's all right to install Blutooth support by default.
Remains the cases of dictionaries, which is more complex than I thought. Why install:
Jun 29 18:21:54 Updated: m17n-contrib-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:14 Updated: m17n-contrib-marathi-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:15 Updated: m17n-contrib-sinhala-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:15 Updated: m17n-contrib-oriya-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:15 Updated: m17n-contrib-assamese-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:15 Updated: m17n-contrib-telugu-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:16 Updated: m17n-contrib-urdu-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:16 Updated: m17n-contrib-kannada-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:16 Updated: m17n-contrib-hindi-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:17 Updated: m17n-contrib-gujarati-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:17 Updated: m17n-contrib-tamil-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:17 Updated: m17n-contrib-punjabi-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:18 Updated: m17n-contrib-bengali-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jun 29 18:23:18 Updated: m17n-contrib-malayalam-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:43 Updated: m17n-contrib-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:43 Updated: m17n-contrib-gujarati-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:44 Updated: m17n-contrib-kannada-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:44 Updated: m17n-contrib-punjabi-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:44 Updated: m17n-contrib-bengali-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:45 Updated: m17n-contrib-assamese-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:45 Updated: m17n-contrib-tamil-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:45 Updated: m17n-contrib-sinhala-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:46 Updated: m17n-contrib-malayalam-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:46 Updated: m17n-contrib-oriya-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:46 Updated: m17n-contrib-urdu-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:47 Updated: m17n-contrib-marathi-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:47 Updated: m17n-contrib-hindi-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Jul 19 19:53:47 Updated: m17n-contrib-telugu-1.1.9-7.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:30 Updated: m17n-contrib-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:30 Updated: m17n-contrib-urdu-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:31 Updated: m17n-contrib-marathi-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:33 Updated: m17n-contrib-assamese-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:34 Updated: m17n-contrib-hindi-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:35 Updated: m17n-contrib-telugu-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:35 Updated: m17n-contrib-kannada-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:36 Updated: m17n-contrib-punjabi-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:36 Updated: m17n-contrib-tamil-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:37 Updated: m17n-contrib-sinhala-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:37 Updated: m17n-contrib-oriya-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:38 Updated: m17n-contrib-gujarati-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:39 Updated: m17n-contrib-malayalam-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:40 Updated: m17n-contrib-bengali-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:30 Updated: m17n-contrib-urdu-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:31 Updated: m17n-contrib-marathi-1.1.10-2.fc11.noarch Aug 19 00:05:31 Updated: m17n-db-thai-1.5.5-1.fc11.noarch
Those packages provide contributed multilingualization (m17n) input maps for... whatever the language.