Quoting Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org): > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:23:56PM +0000, Michael Schutte wrote: > > As d-i has been brought up: Moving from console-tools to kbd does not > > affect the installer; > > localechooser would need to be changed to install kbd rather than > console-tools. > > > console-tools needs libconsole, which is too large for d-i, so it > > already uses kbd-udeb. > > Are you thinking of console-setup here? Note that d-i still uses > kbd-chooser, which has its own cloned-and-hacked implementation of bits > of the keyboard utilities. I should add to this that the most expected benefit of any change in that matter should be to get rid of *two* parallel keymap collections: the one in console-data (that's used, partly, in the installer, then later by either kbd or console-* stuff) and the one in X (that's later used by any user but Joey Schulze..:-)) As console-data maintainer (along with Alastair in theory, but all recent breakages are mine), I would love to see it become useless. This is why I did put a lot of hope in the ideas about dropping it and use console-setup in D-I (and thus later on the system)....which unfortunately just remained ideas. As Colin points out, i18n of the keymap choice is currently the major blocker to get c-s used in D-I. Last time I looked at it, it required time and skills...two things I don't really have. Colin has one of those, at least..:-)
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