Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:25:00AM +0100, Armin K. wrote:
>> Dana 11.1.2013 0:44, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL je napisao:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On my lfs, I build orca, as I need a screen reader in my daily usage of LFS 
>>> and
>>> because I want to build gnome3.6 to do tests. BLFS mentions, as recommended
>>> dependencies, brltty and speech-dispatcher. Indeed, they are nearly 
>>> mandatory,
>>> as without them, orca cannot send its work to any assistive 
>>> hardware/software,
>>> so it hasn't sense. But... well.
>>>
>>
>> I guess that whoever updated/added Orca (including myself) to the book
>> didn't had access to assistive hardware and couldn't check if it was
>> really necesary and that's why those packages are not in the book.
>>
>   Certainly true for when I touched it last year : without the
> hardware we have to just do the best we can.
>>>
>>> Interested? As Quvi (I'm writing it), we also can do a blog article, but for
>>> this precise case, I think adding these packages is important.
>>>
>>> I wait for your opinion.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> JPM
>>>
>>
>> Patches are always welcome as well as maintainers.
>
>   Agreed.

I agree too, but we do need to be careful about adding packages to a 
book without a reasonable commitment for long term maintenance.

   -- Bruce

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