Re: brltty: does this really need to depend on libicu?
Hello,
If I may comment...
As a blind Debian user, I certainly appreciate having an accessible installation method... accessible from the >beginning< of the boot/installation process. If access depends on retrieving material from a mirror, then it will not be accessible until sometime through the procedure, correct?
I personnally use speakup, not brltty, on a regular basis However, there are those who use brltty. Yes, we are a minority, and perhaps removal of brltty from >one< installation method is necessary, but >>please<< continue to consider our need to be able to install and use our debian system with full access in at least one installation method.
Thanks very much for your work in providing accessible Debian installations.
--terry
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:46:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> For the debian-boot list: see [1] for the start of this thread.
>
> On Thursday 23 October 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > And if brltty only needs a fraction of its functionality, then I
> > > think it should be reconsidered whether libicu really isn't the right
> > > solution for it.
> >
> > ICU is definitely the way recommanded by unicode.org.
>
> OK. In that case I think the only realistic thing to do here is to drop
> brltty from the netinst image. It will of course be kept on full CDs.
>
> I think that is acceptable given the following considerations:
> - the brltty deb is installed in finish-install
> - the netinst is intended to always be used with a mirror
> - if a mirror is available, brltty will continue too be installed without
> any problems
> - IMO doing a netinst installation without using a mirror makes no sense
> for visually handicapped users as it only really makes sense for testing
> and for deliberate absolute minimal installs
>
> Given the above I think that keeping a 5MB dependency for something that's
> needed only in exceptional cases by a very small group of users is not
> worth it.
>
> I would suggest adding a dialog in the brltty-udeb finish-install script
> to warn users if the deb was not installed correctly, but given the above
> I don't think having that dialog is a requirement before we could drop
> the package from netinst images.
>
> Unless there are strong arguments against this proposed change, I will
> commit it in a few days.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/10/msg00013.html
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