Re: [PATCH,RFC] Fetch c-s translations from xkeyboard-config.

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Anton Zinoviev, le Tue 12 May 2009 20:11:36 +0300, a écrit :
> Another problem that is no immediate is the big size of 
> console-setup.config - it certainly can not fit in boot floppies.
> 
> the strings need to go outside the script in a compressed 
> file that is optional.
> 
> I this way the strings can go to an udeb that won't be extracted in
> systems with low memory.

Mmm, AIUI, at the point of configuring the keyboard, no additional
udebs have been extracted.  Reading lowmem scripts tells me that it
saves memory by just dropping files, we could just do the same with the
translations.  As for the size of boot floppies, the file can be in a
separated udeb that is not included in them.

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> The problem is that the config script is called before anything is
> unpacked...

And that's an issue for the regular .debs.  That means that the
console-setup deb would have to pre-depend on the deb containing the
translations.  (No, we can not just use usual templates, as we want to
be able to shuffle keyboard proposals at will).  Or we decide to not
care about having a 1MB console-setup.config (maybe we can manage to
ship it compressed and extract it on the fly)

Samuel