On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > if xkb-data is available then these keymaps can be generated at > runtime by ckbcomp/setupcon (although I'm not sure ckbcomp-mini can do > it; Anton?).
No, ckbcomp-mini can not do this and ckbcomp would require Perl and a new udeb. However, in a X-based installation you don't need to configure the console so maybe console-setup-pc-ekmap is not required? On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:22:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Besides that it offers choices for keymaps that are not even available and > AFAIK it does not detect headless systems that don't need any console > setup. AFAIK this doesn't happen. > The extremely long selection lists make console-setup-udeb completely > unusable with the text frontend. Inconvenient as always with the long selection lists, but not unusable, see #531646. However, I am not sure which extremely long selection lists are you refering to. AFAIK there is only one long selection list in c-s-udeb, in the typical situation this question won't be asked and it is longer than the corresponding selection list of kbd-chooser only because some layouts are not supported by kbd-chooser. > The basic error in the design is the assumption that the same functionality > is suitable for both installed systems (where users may want to tune there > keyboard for their personal preferences and, most importantly, have the > opportunity to try out different options and see their effect) and for the > installer (where users only need a basic selection of the correct keymap > with solid defaults based on country, language and keymap for everything > else). There is no such assumption. If the d-i team has enough man-power the the udeb can be redesigned to ask entirely different questions. Setupcon is there so only the debconf-dialog needs to be redesigned. The current implementation is due to the realisation that this the only way I can support partially the udeb. Any difference between the udeb and the regular package would imply more work for the d-i team. However, I'd like to point out that in the typical situation console-setup-udeb would ask only one question with less choices than kbd-chooser. More functionality does not necessarily mean less convenience. > I'm not going into further detail here. For that, please see the earlier > thread Samuel already linked to. I think a lot of things changed in console-setup since that thread. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100227191245.gb2...@debian.lan
