Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl): > Possibly for the current situation the apt-install of console-setup should > be moved from localechooser to kbd-chooser which already takes care not > to install console-data on headless systems [1]. This would also make for > a more natural migration from kbd-chooser to console-setup-udeb. Agreed. > > > 3. Change localechooser not to care about the console at all -- > > console-setup-udeb doesn't apt-install console-setup on headless > > systems, see console-setup/debian/console-setup-udeb.base-installer > > c-s-udeb probably *should* apt-install console-setup. Currently it relies > on localechooser to do this, which is not at all logical. Agreed too. I can't remember now why this did end up in localechooser. I guess this is because, in the past, the settings for the console happened to be language-dependent in some way....but that part of the code was added by Denis Barbier and I don't really remember the rationale to have it there. (one rationale is maybe that kbd-chooser is written in C...:-))
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