On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I looked at writing directly to /etc/default/console-setup so the > settings could be picked up later, but since I have no idea what to put > for the other variables there it didn't look like it would trivially > work. What I'd like the logic to look like is something like "if this > is the initial console-setup install and there's an xorg.conf, use the > model/layout/variant/options from there directly
If only model, layout, variant, options are necessary then the config script of console-setup only needs to copy the settings from xorg.conf to /etc/default/console-setup without any changes (regardless of how many layouts). I will modify your patch to do this. Why does your patch ignore XkbRules? > (bypassing debconf so multiple layouts can be preserved), and setup > the rest as usual'. Does this sound sane/feasible? Unlike dexconf console-setup completely ignores its settings in the Debconf database. When I wrote that debconf doesn't support multiple layouts I meant that in this case dpkg-reconfigure will not ask questions about the layout. Instead the user will be informed that the keyboard settings in /etc/default/console-setup have to be edited manualy. > We'll document it, and people will have the option of configuring that > stuff directly in hal if they want to have different setups, but I > think the default case should be to share them. Yes, in most cases it is desirable to share the configuration. Another thing that would require a little more work would be to create a separate keyboard configuration package (= current debconf configuration of console-setup minus questions about encoding, codeset and font) that creates a /etc/default/keyboard file that is used by console-setup, console-setup-mini and X. In this way X won't have to depend on console-setup. If you agree and if it is not too difficult, then when I have time I will make such package. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
