On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:49:42AM -0500, Don Wright wrote: > KatolaZ wrote: > > >On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:35:08PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > >> Can you use Alt+arrow keys to change consoles? Or qemu's sendkey > >> feature? > >> > > > >Oh, sure I can, and this is how I got around it. I was just suggesting > >that changing this "default" might be useful in some occasions, and > >could avoid a bit of frustration :) After all, there is no need to > >have the installer log on tty4, rather than tty2, except for > >historical "reasons" (i.e., it has been there since the new Debian > >installer was introduced back in the days, for no particular reason, > >AFAIK). > > And since Alt-F4 for the installer log is so well-known and > well-documented, not least in messages that will show up when searching > for troubleshooting advice, the process of changing it to fix an > edge-case annoyance with a simple workaround should involve considerable > discussion and deliberation before choosing to throw away this > accumulated wisdom. > > There are numerous options for the virtualization stack, and I haven't > seen anyone claim QEMU, with or without KVM, has the largest usage. Let > us not forget KVM (the virtualizer most often paired with QEMU > management) is a Red Hat property, with all that implies for the future. > > The installer is a key component of Debian as a distro, and historically > has determined much of the "what and when" for a new release. Does > Devuan really want to further marginalize its potential user base by > maintaining a fork of this key component with behavior different than > upstream? --Don
Oce the Debian installer starts setting a lot of stuff up for the benefit of systemd, we're going to have to have a fork. At that point, the only question is whether we want to marginalize the potential user base. I think that would be still a bad idea. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
