gentoo drops speakup

[Zachary Kline]

Hello,
    Admittedly, I'm curious.  What was the blessing in disguise you saw in 
that?  I hadn't been following the situation closely enough, it seems.
Thanks much,
Zack.

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From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: gentoo drops speakup


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> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 04:46:03PM EST, josh at techlab.cviatlanta.org wrote:
>> I just saw that gentoo has dropped speakup for 2.6.22.  I think thiss is 
>> the second distro to drop speakup.  What can we
>> do?  I would hate to see speakup die out after all these years.
>
> This has been done, at least in Gentoo's case, purely for technical
> reasons. Ubuntu dropped it for others, although it seems as that was
> actually a blessing in disguise.
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> Luke Yelavich
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