On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 17:34 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 10/09/2012 05:18 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Tue, 09.10.12 14:41, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > >> "|CHANGES WITH 194: * If /etc/vconsole.conf is non-existent or empty > >> we will no longer load any console font or key map at boot by > >> default. Instead the kernel defaults will be left intact. This is > >> definitely the right thing to do, as no configuration should mean no > >> configuration, and hard-coding font names that are different on all > >> archs is probably a bad idea. Also, the kernel default key map and > >> font should be good enough for most cases anyway, and mostly > >> identical to the userspace fonts/key maps we previously overloaded > >> them with. If distributions want to continue to default to a > >> non-kernel font or key map they should ship a default > >> /etc/vconsole.conf with the appropriate contents." > > Note that this change has next to zero effect on Fedora, since we pass > > the font/map via the kernel cmdline anyway. > > I was referring to the new kernel parameter supposed to be used and that > applications, admins and users a like should be using /etc/vconsole.conf > instead of /etc/sysconfig/i18n > > Seriously Lennart how many users do you think are aware of that now when > we have barely manage to go through localization bugs in F18 which may > or my not be a direct result of this "next to zero effect on Fedora" > that this is the way to go? at the least, I think the anaconda team needs to have a clear idea of exactly what they ought to be a) setting on clean install and b) migrating on upgrades, as regards l10n/i18n configuration. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
