speech-dup requires speakup-3.0.2 on Gentoo

Garrett Klein garrettklein at comcast.net
Fri Apr 25 18:23:31 EDT 2008


It's package.provided ... I hadn't thought of that. I'll definitely give
it a try.

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Probably isn't considered as a bug, you would want speakup to use
> speechd-up. The problem is that you have decided to maintain speakup
> yourself without telling portage that you are going to do this.
> Unfortunately I haven't used gentoo for some time, so can't remember the
> way to do this or couldn't even be sure that it would be the same after
> such a length of time. The documentation on portage should give this
> information, it did back when I used gentoo.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:35 -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> When updating gentoo this morning, I noticed that portage was trying to
>> install speakup. Now, I have my own version of speakup compiled into the
>> kernel and don't think it's necessary for emerge to start compiling
>> random modules. Thinking thus, I masked app-accessibility/speakup in
>> /etc/portage/package.mask. Unfortunately, it complains that speechd-up
>> requires it. Is this a bug in the speechd-up ebuild?
>>   
> 
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