Re: kbd reccommends svgatextmode? why?

[Dominik Kubla <kubla@netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>]

>>>>> Joey Hess writes:

> Why is svgatextmode important to the kbd package?  This is
> especially annoying since kbd is in base, and so dselect is going to
> pretty well force the installation of svgatextmode on all debian
> systems.

Because kbd now defers any video setup and font loading to
svgatextmode.  It is far more flexible: resize your console and, given
correct configuration of svgatextmode, the appropriate font will be
loaded.

It is true that kbd provides the svgatextmode functionality, but at
least the resizecons utility is a huge security hole, so you will most
likely need svgatextmode anyway.

BTW. IMHO text consoles with 100+ Hz should be mandatory anyway... :)

But since ´recommends´ is too strong, i will change it to 'suggests'
in the next release.

Thanks for your input,
  Dominik Kubla


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