kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Dan Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I use the following to make capslock act as control in the console > > window. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to do this without > > installing console-tools, which depends on console-data and > > console-tools-libs, which altogether require almost 5M of disk space > > on my machine. Any thoughts? > > Which, at current rates of disk storage, costs you about $0.004 -- > that's four cents of a cent, US.
Of course the actual disk space used is not the issue. More important are: the time required to download new versions when I dist-upgrade; the time required to unpack and install these; the additional time taken to perform a backup; the possibility of needing an extra CD to backup onto (my system is close to overflowing a CD); and, if my system grows enough, the time required to install a new, larger hard drive and transfer the system to it. [My system is a relatively slow laptop, so all of these costs are real.] Because of these issues, I try to keep my machines as lean as possible. loadkeys works without having console-data installed, so maybe console-tools should just recommend console-data? Dan
