The best userfriendly solution for both would be to make a choice if the package kbd (loadkeys) is needed or not.
Wich embedded device is it? Do you have a link? Userfriendly matters! Otherwise people look for a better solution. My system runs continuous in a greenhouse. It needs the keyboard for changing parameters. It displays the values on the screen. No Xorg needed. www.klimaregelung.de Am Wednesday 28 September 2011 02:57:45 schrieben Sie: > It is not strange if if the storage is soldered directly to the the > board. It sounds like you have never played with embedded devices > where kilobytes still matter. > > Look there are two very different perspectives here. I have to agree > with Adrian, less is better. 10 MB may not seem like much to you, but > to me an increase of 10 MB of code is 10 more MB that I have > patch/update and audit, on every system. Some of my systems are in > very remote areas with low bandwidth (sometimes sporadic access to the > internet). > > Another solution (beyond splitting voyage into yet another variant) > would be to create a virtual package. Ubuntu does this with gnome and > kde, allowing you install everything that you might need for that > given environment. Say "apt-get install voyage-gnome-desktop" or > something similar. > > I personally don't get why you would want to use voyage for a desktop > system, there are so many awesome distros aimed at this market. Where > voyage really shines for me is how well it scales down, while still > preserving a functional Debian system. The added drivers for the Alix > and Soekris specific hardware (like the LEDs) are also nice, but not a > deal breaker. > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Rainer Stratmann > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Tuesday 27 September 2011 17:30:55 schrieben Sie: > >> If we accepted every single package that everyone requested, we might > >> as well install a full version of debian. > > > > Not every single package. A basic package! > > From a full-fledged debian it is far away. > > Otherwise someone can choose a different linux distro which is more > > userfriendly than voyage. I mainly choose voyage because of the read only > > filesystem. > > > >> That's not the point of > >> Voyage Linux. In fact, Voyage is Too Big for one of my systems: 16 MB > >> flash disk, not expandable. > > > > That sounds really strange in these days. Like from the stone-age. > > "Not expandable" is not really a serious statement in my opinion. > > You have to search before you see a flash disk with MB instead of GB. > > Rather you look at any reason to supress the development for a > > userfriendly distribution. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Voyage-linux mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
