Re: pkg/57375: Bugfix to enable Russian, French an German keyboard within the package kvkbd

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57375; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/57375: Bugfix to enable Russian, French an German keyboard
 within the package kvkbd
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 04:33:30 +0000

 On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 05:25:01PM +0000, adrian%mx.aik.onl@localhost wrote:
  > Dear maintainers of the pkg xvkbd,
  > 
  > 		 using the default xvkbd installation from the pre-built binaries on NetBSD/amd64, it is not possible to enable the Russian keyboard.
  > 
  > 		 To use the Russian, French and German keyboard within xvkbd, the following changes are necessary:
  > 
  > % cat /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd
  > #include "XVkbd-common"
  > #include "XVkbd-german"
  > #include "XVkbd-french"
  > #include "XVkbd-russian"
 
 (Why is it using app-defaults anyway? Did we fall into a timewarp back
 to 1992?)
 
  > XVkbd searches for the keyboard definitions, in a other directory then where the installation of the pkg puts them:
  > 
  > % ln -s /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian
 
 This is problematic because packages shouldn't touch files outside the
 package tree.
 
 Better to fix the search path.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost