On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 12:08 +0100, Joel Andres Granados wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:57 +0100, Joel Andres Granados wrote: > >> Here is a patch that handles the setting of the TERM variable with a > >> term=value argument in the cmdline. As always comments are > >> appreciated. > > > > What's the use case of letting people specify more than we already do? > > The question here is what can we gain from specifying a vt that is > greater than vt100 (we can already specify with utf8 argument). The > answer is: for real terminals there are some gains, like maximum > possible character speed. Not sure if this applies directly to > emulated terminals. Not really sure how this plays with xen consoles > either. Going to search some more before pushing or discarding. Given that the number of real terminals out there is pretty minimal, I think that we're probably better off just keeping things simpler Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
