[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: Bug#320571: console-tools: Please move chvt and openvt to /bin

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> Yes, as well as unicode_start, and thus unicode_stop for symmetry.

By the way, unicode-start contains the following command, it does not
work properly for non-latin1 symbols.

dumpkeys | loadkeys --unicode

> But I wonder if this is useful after all, console should be set up
> according to user's preference.

I presume the very early keyboard setup is to serve the administrator.
When the "fsck" fails for some reason the administrator should not be
left with non-QWERTY phisical keyboard that generates QWERTY symbols.

> Of course, this default may be different from QWERTY under C locale,
> so after all kbd_mode has indeed to be moved to /bin.  As you can
> see, these are random thoughts :)

Some users make their systems to run in non-C locale (even UTF-8) from
the beginning - by a parameter in LILO or Grub.  Ofcourse in order
this to be functional /usr may not be in separate partition or else
the system will fallback to C locale anyway.

Anton Zinoviev