On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:49:04PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > The difference is only in the > content of some data files, and how these are applied to the linux > console. I do not understand why it has to be a separate package.
The name of this package chosen by the upstream is console-tools-cyrillic. This is because he wanted to include the contents of console-tools-cyrillic in the common package console-tools. As far as I know the responce by the old maintainer of this package was that console-data has to be as small size as possible and console-tools-cyrillic contains quiet a big collection of fonts (now it is even bigger). Currently the main difference between the setup of the console between console-cyrillic and console-toos is the keyboard setup. Console-tools uses static keyboard definitions located in /usr/share/keymaps. This makes impossible for the users to choose for example which keys should be used in order to switch between Cyrillic and Latin. On the other hand in console-cyrillic the keyboard definitions are dinamicaly generated acording to the preferences of the user. Another difference (that made console-cyrillyc the best choice for the Cyrillic languages) are the debconf questions during the installation. > I actually suspect the problems facing each such configuration setup is > so close to each other that it make sense to have only one package. > One package would make sure the solutions to these problems are more > easily shared. I agree. There is no reason why console-cyrillic is not used for Arabic, Greek and Hebrew even now - this would give better support for these languages. For the Latin languages the benefit will be smaller - they will become independent from the coding system - UTF-8 or 8-bit. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
