Installing Slackware with Speakup and Espeak

[Michael Whapples]

Yes I have to say that installing the gnome distributions for slackware 
isn't hard, the problem I found was maintaining the system. From time to 
time the two sets of packages got out of sync and so weren't always 
compatible and the slackware package system didn't help in trying to 
alert you to conflicts (I did try using slapt-get and swaret but these 
still aren't as good as other package managers such as apt on debian).

Now considering the above, yes an actual slackware distribution 
including gnome could help, its the responsibility of the distro 
maintainer to ensure that packages in the distro don't conflict at any 
given time (well at least for the stable branch). However making a 
custom distro just for that does seem a bit much. I would hope for gnome 
you might be able to reuse or assist with some of the existing work for 
providing gnome for slackware. As for including espeakup so the install 
can be done by software speech, I really would want to see that go back 
to slackware itself.

Providing espeakup could be included on the main slackware disks, the 
only custom distro I would imagine with great value is a LiveCD based on 
slackware with all the accessibility tools available (how important is 
the distro a LiveCD is based on, GRML certainly is very good for an 
accessible LiveCD but is debian based).

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Alex Snow wrote:
> Making a custom distro just to get Gnome doesn't seem to be necessary as
> all the gnome packages for Slackware I have tried install with minimal
> work.
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