Potential issue when rebuilding gnome-speech under feisty.

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi Al
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:53:40AM EST, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> I've noticed a potentially bad situation as things currently stand 
> with feisty and gnome-speech.  As of now, espeak is included, and is 
> the default synthesizer for Orca.  This is great; but if someone tries 
> to rebuild gnome-speech and neglects to first install libespeak-dev, 
> the result will be a copy of gnome-speech in which espeak doesn't get 
> built.  What would happen in this instance? would the previously 
> installed espeak driver still work, or would the synthesizer no longer 
> be available?

I see where you are coming from, however, this is something that will 
not be changed, due to both disk space on the CDs at a premium, and the 
fact that most users won't need it anyway. If people really really want 
to rebuild gnome-speech for any reason, they would likely know about 
what dependencies are needed anyway. It is not hard to grab all 
gnome-speech's dependencies by running "sudo apt-get build-dep 
gnome-speech".

> If festival is ultimately removed from the default installation, the 
> worst case scenario could be that by rebuilding gnome-speech and not 
> installing libespeak-dev, someone who is reliant on a screen reader 
> could render their system completely unusable.

Festival is being removed.

Thanks
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