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Re: console-tools in base



Matt Porter writes:
 > The problem I'm seeing is more directly related to running on serial
 > console.  The postinst file for console-tools (and kbd previously) want
 > to run loadkeys/dumpkeys and yet their is not a normal console facility
 > to do that.  These packages break during configuration on a serial console
 > so we don't want them to be "required" on all systems.  The "required"
 > priority makes them get autoselected in dselect after the system is
 > installed (and they have already been removed by the installer which knows
 > it is on sercon and can't make use of consolee-*).

Ah, I get it.  Sorry.

So it appears that the notion of priority depends on the profile ? ...

Would it be sufficient to lower the priority to "Important" ?

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