On Sunday 14 March 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:15:53AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > D-I does not follow Recommends during base-installer (as discussed > > last month). This means that currently console-setup gets installed > > without kbd and console-tools. > > This is wrong. Console-setup can not configure the console without kbd > or console-tools.
OK. That's clear enough :-) > Isn't the installer the program that makes the decision whether kbd or > console-tools has to be installed? Partly. It depends on how APT is configured. And at that point in the installation it's configured not to install Recommends by default. After base-installer we _do_ install Recommends by default. We can also use a parameter when calling apt-install to force installing Recommends. That's what I was planning to do for console-setup. But I wanted to check with you first why they are Recommends in the first place. Note that up to Lenny D-I *never* installed Recommends. We've only changed that since then but are still working out some special cases. > > Would it be better in your opinion to force installation of Recommends > > for console-setup? What exactly is the difference for users? > > I am not sure I understand. I can make c-s to depend on kbd or > console-tools. Should I? If the package is useless without those two packages, then maybe you should. But see below. > In the past c-s used strong dependency but I changed it to only > recommends because of request by porters working on architectures which > do not have kbd or console-tools (i.e. BSD). This was before the split > of c-s. Now with the new package keyboard-configuration I think I can > use again dependency if you want. That explains the background. But I'm not sure that the problem is solved for those ports. As console-setup depends on keyboard-configuration, wouldn't making it a depends result in console-setup itself becoming uninstallable again? As said above we can also solve it in D-I by forcing the installation of Recommends. Please let me know and I'll take care of it. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003141239.21651.elen...@planet.nl
