From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 07/07: services: console-keymap: Deprecate.
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:24:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2adlr66.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvfa29qs.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sat, 06 Apr 2019 22:51:07 +0300")
Hi Mark & Alex,
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
> Mark H Weaver (2019-04-05 21:45 -0400) wrote:
>
>> Hi Ludovic,
>>
>> guix-commits@gnu.org writes:
>>
>>> civodul pushed a commit to branch master
>>> in repository guix.
>>>
>>> commit 3a665637afc32a142dc24a77ce7ce9235eb6a3af
>>> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>>> Date: Wed Apr 3 14:32:41 2019 +0200
>>>
>>> services: console-keymap: Deprecate.
>>>
>>> * gnu/services/base.scm (console-keymap-service): Mark as deprecated.
>>> * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Remove its documentation.
>>
>> Why is this being deprecated?
>
> Ouch, this is unpleasant surprise.
For the record I submitted it here:
<https://issues.guix.info/issue/35120>.
>> Is there an alternative service to replace it?
>
> I wonder too! I see there is a new ‘keyboard-layout’ field, but if I
> understand (gnu system keyboard) correctly, it does not allow me to use
> my own file in "loadkeys" format.
As you found out, this is deprecated in favor of ‘keyboard-layout’,
which has a couple of advantages: it’s uniform (the same config works
for GRUB, Linux, and Xorg), and it’s installed from the initrd, so
already effective when you type in your passphrase (see
<https://issues.guix.info/issue/34929>).
‘keyboard-layout’ definitely works for what you describe, Mark (see the
examples in the manual.)
If you do fancy things with Linux-native keymap files, Alex, it’s
probably not for you. In that case you do need
‘console-keymap-service’.
However, I was thinking that we probably want to steer users towards the
‘keyboard-layout’ mechanism so they don’t experience the inconsistencies
we had before. That’s why I deprecated ‘console-keymap-service’. I’d
argue that keymap experts won’t have difficulties coming up with a
‘console-keymap-service’ if they need it.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
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[not found] <20190405134511.7740.88403@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20190405134516.BD1962158A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-04-06 1:45 ` 07/07: services: console-keymap: Deprecate Mark H Weaver
2019-04-06 19:51 ` Alex Kost
2019-04-07 16:24 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-04-11 19:04 ` Alex Kost
2019-04-12 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-12 2:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-04-12 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
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