on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:59:46 John covici wrote:
> > > > OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency
> > > > -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any
> > > > way to fool portage that I have such a thing when I don't?
> > >
> > > Why don't you just disable the accessibility use flag if you don't
> > > want it?
> >
> > Because I do want orca which is another seech package, but gnopernicus
> > is a dead duck now. Perhaps there should be a virtual speech package
> > which orca, lsr could both satisfy.
>
> What has orca to do with it? Nothing in the tree depends on it. If you want
> it
> just add it to your world file (see --noreplace in `man emerge`).
>
> The gnome ebuild is just a meta package (essentially a virtual that nothing
> must depend on directly). It installs nothing itself. So if you want other
> packages that it does depend on with accessibility enabled just add those to
> your world file too...
>
> > > > Another one is mozilla-firefox I want to use the 3.0 nightly build
> > > > compiled from source, can I fool portage into thinking I have
> > > > mozilla-2.0 or whatever when I don't have such a beast?
> > >
> > > You *can* use package.provided (see `man portage`) but I doubt that
> > > epiphany and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably create an
> > > ebuild if I really wanted firefox 3 now (which I don't).
> >
> > I do this because it is supposed to be much more accessible than the
> > 2.0 versions.
>
> Accessible? Not understood. ;)
According to the folks working on orca, they have been working with
the Firefox team to make Orca speak the controls properly whereas if
I use 2.0 versions, Orca hardly says anything and I can't really use
this for web browsing.
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John Covici
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