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