random package of the day (#2): kbd?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 1 21:28:01 UTC 2013
Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said:
> This package is all about the virtual console. However, the virtual console
> doesn't seem to outright break without it, for cases like OpenStack or local
> libvirt where a console might actually be available. We save a very exciting
> 4.5MB on disk if we don't install this. Any strong opinions?
If a console configuration is written to the disk (or passed on the boot
command line) you'll likely get warnings/errors in the journal from systemd
about being unable to set the font/keymap/etc. So you'd want to at a
minimum ensure you don't get into that situation.
Bill
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