On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 14:38:35 -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > Please see http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide for the > > rationale and #515214 for more info. > > That is great, yet it does nothing for me except change fonts. I've read > the bug report, and it is just people complaining about Hal and > console-setup dependencies. > If there's no way to tell console-setup to not change fonts, then that probably can be fixed. That doesn't mean we should drop the dependency.
> Frankly, I see no reason why console-tools and hal cannot be moved to > Recommends. I understand the reasoning behind the above link and agree > with it. But at same time defaults can be hardcoded to something like, > keymap - US (or Linux default) > mouse - standard /dev/input/mice device No, it's not possible to make that work out of the box. And even if it was, using a us keymap just because some Recommends wasn't satisfied is not acceptable in my opinion. > Moving these packages to Recommends DOES NOT mean you need to support > input definitions in xorg.conf! > It means that installs without hal and console-setup ought to work. They don't. So I don't think moving these packages to recommends would do anyone any good (except for the warm fuzzy feeling for some whiners, which I'm happy to ignore). Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
