[systemd-devel] [PATCH] vconsole-setup: fix path on Arch

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 07.10.10 14:00, Lucas De Marchi (lucas.demarchi at profusion.mobi) wrote:

> Arch uses the same paths and default font of gentoo. Previously,
> systemd-vconsole-setup was failing with the following message:
> 
> systemd-vconsole-setup[59]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 1.

I have now merged this patch.

However, let me make clear that I am not a big fan of patches like
this. We intend to drop distro-specific compatiblity kludges from the
systemd tree eventually at which point people should really have
migrated their binaries to some standardized place or from then may
carry on with out-of-tree patches. And this kind of configuring
appropriate paths for the same binaries is the first thing we are going
to kill.

There's really no point in installing setfont at different places in the
various distributions. And since to me it appears to make more sense to
have those tools in /bin rather than in /usr/bin (since you want
kbd/console set up properly when asking for hdd passwords during early
boot) I think we should declare /bin the standard place for these tools.

Or in other words: start moving things to standard places now!

Lennart

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