bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:

> * Shepherd is using /dev/console as an output and some messages are
>   polluting the help line displayed at the bottom of the screen. I'm not
>   sure how to solve it.
>
>   Shepherd could poll /dev/log so that once syslog is available it stops
>   using /dev/console.

That’s exactly what it does, see (shepherd comm).

Perhaps we just need to have the installer service depend on ‘syslogd’,
at which point nothing goes to /dev/console?

Ludo’.