[Voyage-linux] loadkeys

[Rainer Stratmann]

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
>
> <RainerStratmann at t-online.de> 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.
> >
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