Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters@g.o>
To: "'gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o'" <gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] software speech
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:16:44
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0409090514160.22429@shell.osuosl.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-accessibility] software speech by Whitley CTR Cecil H
1 Yes, this is normal for this package.
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3 Because there hasn't been an official release of it yet, it is in
4 package.mask because the ebuild pulls from a live cvs tree.
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6 man portage will tell you how to unmask it so that you can use it. Be
7 warned, it may or may not work. If the ebuild is working, let us know..
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9 On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
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11 > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:14:29 -0400
12 > From: Whitley CTR Cecil H <WhitleyCH.ctr@××××××××××××××××.mil>
13 > Reply-To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
14 > To: "'gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o'"
15 > <gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o>
16 > Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] software speech
17 >
18 > Hi,
19 > well, the subjects a little off, it's actually speechd-up. It appears this
20 > ebuild is masked? I've now got sound working (the alsa howto on the gentoo
21 > site is great), and i've emerged flite (and it works). I tried
22 > emerge speechd-up
23 > and got an error. I can pipe the msg to a file and post it if it would be
24 > helpfull. But my personal summary of the message is that the package is
25 > masked? Is this normal, and how do I proceed?
26 > Thanks,
27 > Cecil
28 >
29 >
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32 Deedra Waters - Gentoo developer relations, accessibility and infrastructure -
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