Talk:Anki
About the Flashcards section
I think it is superfluous. Users interested in that kind of stuff should probably read Anki's documentation or even its Wikipedia page, but not its page on the Arch Wiki. Alexpin (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- I was as laconic as I can. Some time ago I wanted to know exactly am I able to autogenerate deck with media by my python script, because Anki docs mostly describe those csv things like 'how to draw an owl' and not intended for programmers. It was painful to mess with Anki desktop and its pitfalls in inability to do simple things like use nested media folders, batch card/tag editing and intentional XDG standards ignoring. Just don't see necessity for other people to go through this again.--Radioxoma (talk) 20:22, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
4.3 Asian language support unnecessary packages
Why are the mecab-ipadic and kakashi suggested for people to install in 4.3?
Anki's Japanese Support plugin already includes them in its support folder and the add-on description itself says that "This add-on is built for 64 bit Linux systems. If you are on a 32 bit machine, you will need to find a copy of kakasi and mecab that works on your machine, and then put them in the support folder inside this add-on's folder." From this I gather that the add-on uses the included libraries in its folder and not system ones and pacman installed ones would be complete ignored. Going back in the wayback machine, this seems to have been the case for at least starting 2017 and possibly even 2013 due the mention "the reading generation is shipped as a 32 bit binary".
I have found no records of this specific plugin ever needing these externally. I did find AJT Japanese add-on documentation saying it uses external, if present, but not the specific add-on I believe is mentioned in 4.3. I also tested with inotifywait whether either of the packages were used, but as far as I can tell, only the files inside the add-on's support folder is used.
I didn't want to modify the wiki myself because of being a beginner at that and maybe I missed something, but I wanted to raise this issue and maybe potentially help some other people debloat their system. Thetinygardeningant (talk) 00:17, 18 April 2026 (UTC)