Matt: ubuntu-desktop metapackage request

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 01:22:04PM -0600, Joey Stanford wrote:
> I would like to voice a request to have brltty removed from the
> ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop metapackages please. 
> It's needed for a relatively small number of users (even those with
> visual impairments use magnification utilities most of the time rather
> than a Braille reader).

The accessibility team felt that it was appropriate to include this tool.
Please discuss it with them before requesting such a change.

> We might consider creating an ubunut-accessibility metapackage (just as
> KDE and Gnome have done) that would put things like this in it.

Yes, we might, but not for this release (which is mere days away).

> In addition it also forces the installation of festival.  Simply
> removing the desktop metapackage would work but then this causes the
> potential for upgrade troubles later on.

brltty does not depend on festival (gok and gnopernicus do).

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 - mdz