Re: Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?
wath would be nice is if brltty works out-of-the-box for usb for install.
i.e. just chekc if brltty-cmnd-option is set if not start with auto-detect
if it is start with -e
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mario Lang wrote:
> Koichi INOUE <inoue@argv.org> writes:
>
> > I am an ALVA 380 user.
> >
> > Is it somewhat related to brltty in Debian Installer?
>
> Actually, no. In Debian-Installer, a prebaseconfig script which runs
> shortly before the first reboot during the installation *should* actually
> install brltty into the target system and adjust the configuration file
> according to the settings passed as the boot prompt. However, this does
> not use debconf at all right now, so it is unrelated to my original question.
>
> > If current D-I is intended to install brltty automatically in new
> > system and the new brltty package is used in D-I, there might be some
> > difficulty especially for new users.
>
> As explained above, removal of debconf support would not affect the
> procedure during an accessible new system install using a braille display.
> It basically would only change things for people who install brltty
> onto an already running / installed system by invoking apt-get install brltty
> or some other equivalent command.
>
> > If the parameter given at the boot prompt of D-I is propagated to
> > brltty.conf of installed system, users don't need to edit brltty.conf
> > until they want to use the same system with the other braille
> > displays.
>
> Yes, that is the plan of action.
>
> > But if users have to edit brltty.conf in D-I manually to get braille
> > output in the installed system, it will be more difficult to start
> > Debian life by themselves.
>
> Actually, that wouldn't just be more difficult, it would be a bug :-)
>
> > Having dialogs will be also useful for sighted assistant to install
> > Debian for blind users.
>
> Yes, sort of, that is the only argument which still counts for
> debconf, however, I really am not sure if that alone warrants the
> maintainance nightmare that is a proper config-file parsing/changing debconf
> support code.
>
> Additionally, brltty 3.6 gained the ability to specify several different
> display types on different busses at the same time, which allows
> for quite flexible configurations. For instance, on my laptop, I like
> to use bluetooth as a bus to connect my braille star to the notebook,
> since I dont have to connect cables anymore. However, if for some
> reason I forgot my bluetooth adapter, I will need to be able to connect
> via USB, without having to change /etc/brltty.conf, because at that stage,
> I dont have any working display. So the ability to specify several display
> types on several busses makes this possible. Whenever there is no display
> connected, BRLTTY will try all of the specified combinations until it finds a
> display somewhere. As soon as that display gets disconnected, the whole
> circle starts over again.
> This is actually very handy, but it also means that if we want proper
> dialog based configuration via debconf, we (or better, I) have to implement
> multiple-device selection support in debconf. That doesnt exactly look
> like fun, and it only adds to the complexity, which would need fixup
> already anyway.
>
>
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