Bug#515685: console-setup: needs to read xorg.conf on install to get xkb settings

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> I looked at writing directly to /etc/default/console-setup so the
> settings could be picked up later, but since I have no idea what to put
> for the other variables there it didn't look like it would trivially
> work.  What I'd like the logic to look like is something like "if this
> is the initial console-setup install and there's an xorg.conf, use the
> model/layout/variant/options from there directly

If only model, layout, variant, options are necessary then the config 
script of console-setup only needs to copy the settings from xorg.conf 
to /etc/default/console-setup without any changes (regardless of how 
many layouts).  I will modify your patch to do this.

Why does your patch ignore XkbRules?

> (bypassing debconf so multiple layouts can be preserved), and setup 
> the rest as usual'.  Does this sound sane/feasible?

Unlike dexconf console-setup completely ignores its settings in the 
Debconf database.  When I wrote that debconf doesn't support multiple 
layouts I meant that in this case dpkg-reconfigure will not ask 
questions about the layout.  Instead the user will be informed that the 
keyboard settings in /etc/default/console-setup have to be edited 
manualy.

> We'll document it, and people will have the option of configuring that 
> stuff directly in hal if they want to have different setups, but I 
> think the default case should be to share them.

Yes, in most cases it is desirable to share the configuration.

Another thing that would require a little more work would be to create a 
separate keyboard configuration package (= current debconf configuration 
of console-setup minus questions about encoding, codeset and font) that 
creates a /etc/default/keyboard file that is used by console-setup, 
console-setup-mini and X.  In this way X won't have to depend on 
console-setup.  If you agree and if it is not too difficult, then when I 
have time I will make such package.

Anton Zinoviev