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Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.

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On Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:58:44 PM EST Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote on 02/01/2022 at 23:53:19+0100:
> > Greetings All;
> > 
> > Without any conscious prompting by me, te debian 11.1 netinstall for
> > x86-64 systems installed and setup whatever was needed to bring the
> > screen reader to life.
> > 
> > Any thing related to a braile function that I try to remove wants to
> > kill
> > another 2 or 3 gigs of system with it.
> > 
> > Quite distracting to a sighted user when that robotic voice, speaking a
> > very broken bandwidth of what might be english, blaring out of ones
> > speakers 20 db louder than firefoxes audio can I am sure, find a way to
> > silence this w/o destroying the rest of the system. Removing orca will
> > shut it up, but that leaves brltty spamming the daemon.log complaining
> > about a missing library every 5 seconds.  And that's close to 40
> > megabytes a week.
> > 
> > So, how does one shut up this useless to me, screen-reader and kill the
> > log spamming at the same time?
> > 
> > I think its great that folks have gone to that effort for the sightless,
> > but why is that sort of stuff always made mandatory.
> > 
> > I'd sure appreciate any help cleaning it out
> > 
> > Thanks everybody.
> 
> Removing brltty will only lead to the removal of its reverse
> dependencies and so on. This stops at:
> 
> * brltty-espeak
> * brltty-flite
> * brltty-speechd
> * brltty-x11
> 
> None of which you need.
> 
That wasn't the end of the dependencies.  There were 4 more I removed and 
had to kill 2 of them in memory with htop once they were removed, but the 
log is finally silent.

Thank you. Both for the help, and for learning my language so well.

> Theoretically, removing brltty and orca takes little with it.

The first time I tried to remove brltty, the removal cascaded all the way up 
thru all of gnome and xorg. Scary.

> I don't have brltty installed on neither my bullseye nor my unstable
> installs.
> 
> Regards,


Cheers, Pierre-Elliott Bécue, Gene Heskett.
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brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 00:00 +0100
  Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-01-03 00:10 +0100
    Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 02:30 +0100
      Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2022-01-03 03:00 +0100
        Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 03:20 +0100
      Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 11:30 +0100
        Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-04 15:00 +0100
          Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 15:20 +0100
          Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 19:30 +0100
  Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 04:00 +0100
    Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 04:40 +0100
      Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 04:50 +0100
        Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 10:40 +0100
          Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-03 17:00 +0100
          Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 22:50 +0100
            Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-04 01:30 +0100
  Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org> - 2022-01-03 04:00 +0100
    [FIXED] Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 04:50 +0100
      Re: [FIXED] Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2022-01-03 08:10 +0100
        Re: [FIXED] Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-03 10:50 +0100
          Re: [FIXED] Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it. Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2022-01-04 08:10 +0100

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