Re: console-tools-libs: Priority required causes dselect problems on serial console machines
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
> * console-tools (and thus console-tools-libs and console-data) are
> "Section: base; Priority: required", because it is an important
> piece of people installing a workstation, and seems as such to fall
> under the "necessary for the proper functioning of the system"
> clause in the Policy Manual (think of a non-matching keyboard).
Actually, ATM, we have console-data in base, but not console-tools*.
Maybe this is a problem...
> * I attempted on my system to mark as "purge" the console-* packages,
> left dselect, re-entered it, and my choices were preserved.
> * Thus the problem does not seem (to me) to be in the priorities as
> handled by dselect, but in the priorities as handled by dbootstrap
> and friends.
Here you must be somewhat confused. As far as I know, (a)
console-data is used on the rescue disk as well as the base system.
(b) There is no priority handling in dbootstrap at all!
> What are the real problems of having these packages installed, anyway,
> apart from the problem of wasted diskspace ? The default conf does
> not cause any console operations to be done (or it is probably a
> bug).
I would very much prefer not to have to purge these packages for
serial-console, but if console-* is causing problems for serial
consoles, instead make it detect when we're on serial console and act
appropriately in that case.
Perhaps Eric Delaunay could enlighten us all...
> In any case, I think we would better not make less intuitive the
> configuration of a workstation because of serial-console issues,
> mainly because people installing a serial-console machine will
> presumably be experienced users.
I agree, but I don't see why we can't have one base system which works
for headless as well as standard "headful" operation.
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