Hi, Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com> (04/04/2010): > > I think if one is skilled enough to modify this file to support a > > custom layout, one should be expected to deal with such a modified > > file through usual dpkg tools. > > Is there another way to system-widely support a custom layout, which > I missed?
setxkbmap/xkbcomp have -I; you could put stuff wherever you want
(e.g. /etc/…) and use -Ithere. If you want to impose that system-wide,
create /usr/local/bin/{setxkbmap,xkbcomp} with:
#!/bin/sh
exec {setxkbmap,xkbcomp} -Ithere "$@"
> > I'm not sure we want or need to support those things in a specific
> > manner.
>
> By "those things", do you mean my specific way of achieving custom
> layouts, or custom layouts in general?
>
> What I want is what we used to have -- that xkb layouts be
> considered as configuration, rather than data. I realize you (and
> upstream) are unsympathetic, but I do not understand why.
Managing stuff in /etc is always painful and possibly error-prone
(conffiles, etc.), and if upstream doesn't ship anything under /etc by
default, I'm not very keen on introducing that.
KiBi.
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