Hey Samuel! Sorry for not responding earlier, I've been swamped with other things. :-/
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:43:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Samuel Thibault, le sam. 27 mars 2021 17:24:25 +0100, a ecrit: >> Samuel wrote: >> > Currently, the netinst images do not contain brltty and espeakup.. This >> > means that blind users who install Debian without a network mirror end >> > up with an unusable installed system, lacking brltty and espeakup to >> > show braille or talk to them. >> >> Steve McIntyre, le mar. 26 juin 2012 17:28:35 +0100, a ecrit: >> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 01:20:57PM -0300, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > >Steve McIntyre, le Tue 26 Jun 2012 15:51:20 +0100, a écrit : >> > >> Looking at this, it adds another ~20MB: >> > >> ... >> > >> CD 1: GUESS_TOTAL is 96183 after adding amd64:main:libicu48:8138068 >> > > >> > >That's the main culprit and was the reason why >> > >FJP removed brltty from the netinst CD (see >> > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/10/msg00013.html). It seems the >> > >effect has just worsened. >> > >> > Yup, it's only going to get worse over time AFAICS. >> >> Can we reconsider this for bullseye? Nowadays the netinst image already >> includes libicu, so adding brltty and espeakup won't add much to the >> image size. We have had at least one user who was really surprised >> that he didn't get braille&speech working in the installed system only >> because he didn't have Internet available because of missing firmware. >> Telling people to download the DVD-1 image for that case is not going to >> fly :) I've just moved espeakup, brltty and alsa-utils from the "forcd1" config into tools/generate_di+k_list so they'll get pulled in for every build including the netinst. Let's see how much of a size difference that makes. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?