Well, I think it would not be hard to point at all kinds of documentation that misses one major point or another. Fact is, dependencies are important and a system's functionality can easily become impaired by failing to manage dependencies appropriately. It seems to me the fact that so few of us build our Linux installations from scratch is ample testimony to this fact. As far as I now, there are not any package files for speechd-up as of yet. If memroy serves, there is a .deb for speech-dispatcher. Do you really think it doesn't matter whether a someone uses the package or attempts to build from scratch? Isn't it even more important for a newbie to understand this? Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > Sure. That would be great. But I have often read a howto that addresses > only a single distro, relying on distro specific stuff, with no notion > that people using other distros might be out there as well. We get > enough of that from Redmond. > > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >I aggree with you in a general way, but wonder whether you'd also agree > >that one should, when possible, stick to standard procedures on one's > >distro. In other words, when on Debian, install a .deb if you can, and > >when on Fedora, use an rpm if you can, etc., etc. > > > >Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > >>David, > >> > >>I presently have software speech running on my Slackware 10.0 distro, > >>using version 0.5rc3 of speech-dispatcher, and would be happy to share > >>my setup with you or help in any other way with the howto. It would be a > >>valuable contribution to make such a document available, particularly if > >>it were not specific to any one distro. > >> > >>Chuck > >> > >> > >>-- > >>The Moon is Waning Gibbous (75% of Full) > >>Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > >>Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074 > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >-- > > > > Janina Sajka, Chair > > Accessibility Workgroup > > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > > >janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (74% of Full) > Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
