On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:39:20PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Partly. It depends on how APT is configured. And at that point in the > installation it's configured not to install Recommends by default. After > base-installer we _do_ install Recommends by default. > > We can also use a parameter when calling apt-install to force installing > Recommends. That's what I was planning to do for console-setup. But I > wanted to check with you first why they are Recommends in the first place. > > Note that up to Lenny D-I *never* installed Recommends. We've only changed > that since then but are still working out some special cases.
I am realy surprised by all of this. What was causing kbd or console-tools to be installed in the past (before console-setup)? > That explains the background. But I'm not sure that the problem is > solved for those ports. As console-setup depends on > keyboard-configuration, wouldn't making it a depends result in > console-setup itself becoming uninstallable again? Console-setup will become uninstallable. However this should not be a problem. There is no need to install console-setup on these architectures (and the installer should force the installation of keyboard-configuration instead of console-setup). > As said above we can also solve it in D-I by forcing the installation of > Recommends. Please let me know and I'll take care of it. Changing d-i because of c-s seems wrong to me. So there are two options: 1. Changing c-s to depend on kbd | console-tools and installing keyboard-configuration instead of console-setup on some architectures. 2. Let kbd-chooser decide which one of console-setup, kbd and keyboard-configuration is going to be installed. This would be my preferred choice if console-setup-udeb was part of the installer. My reasoning is this: the installer should be able to use c-s as a "black box". No console-related code outside of console-setup-udeb. 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/20100314163104.ga12...@debian.lan
