Re: Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?
I think this is a good solution.
as more and more displays tend to go the USB and on compiling it yourself
thit was necessary anyway.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As you probably all know, BRLTTY currently has debconf support files
> so that a nice dialog pops up upon install and asks the user
> which type of display he has and where that is connected to (device file).
>
> The necessary code behind it is a bit complicated, and needs a heavy
> update for 3.5/3.6, which is the main reason why 3.6 is not yet in
> Unstable.
>
> Now, 3.6 recently gained autodetection support, at least for all
> USB supported models. Considering the debconf complexity and what
> the user really gains, I am thinking about dropping debconf support in
> the next upload all together, and try a different approach:
>
> The default configuration for /etc/brltty.conf would be such that
> BRLTTY will try to autodetect USB displays. So for
> all USB display owners, things would be plug-and-play as soon as they
> apt-get install'ed brltty. Just connect the display, and brltty should
> find and initialize it. Serial display users would
> have to open /etc/brltty.conf and add their display driver + the device file
> they use and do /etc/init.d/brltty restart.
>
> Any comments/cries/protests/whatsoever?
>
>
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