gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote on 03/01/2022 at 02:24:53+0100:
> On Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:58:44 PM EST Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> gene heskett <[email protected]> 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. This is weird. What where the 4 more reverse-dependencies of brltty you are referring to? (if you tried to remove more than brltty this is normal that you had more deps). >> 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 think you probably tried to kill something else without realizing it. >> I don't have brltty installed on neither my bullseye nor my unstable >> installs. >> >> Regards, > > > Cheers, Pierre-Elliott Bécue, Gene Heskett. Cheers! -- PEB
