From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail806.megamailservers.com (mail806.carrierinternetsolutions.com [69.49.106.16]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E0C109EC for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:40:30 -0400 (EDT) X-POP-User: gaijin.clearwire.net Received: from gnuked.clearwire.net (69-44-252-62.mrc.clearwire-dns.net [69.44.252.62]) by mail806.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6QHeSZR027051 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:40:29 -0400 Received: from gaijin by gnuked.clearwire.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KMnx4-0005Cd-7j for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:53:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:53:06 -0700 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: question on speakup-source debian package Message-ID: <20080726175306.GA16922@clearwire.net> References: <20080725223621.GA6738@localhost.localdomain> <20080726034145.GA2336@clearwire.net> <20080726062351.GA16866@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080726062351.GA16866@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: Gaijin X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:40:30 -0000 On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:23:51PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I think you didn't read my question carefully enough. I replied to what I quoted from your previous post. I'm old-school and prefer a simple tarball over any of the other "supposed" shortcut utilities to help patch the kernel, like git and module-assistant, the latter who's use never seems to be mentioned when patching SpeakUP into a kernel. I'm just saying that you could compile a 2.6.26 kernel on a Commodore-64 if the compiler is correct, as it just translates sourcecode into bits and bytes the CPU understands. I'm assuming from what I've gathered that git just downloads the SpeakUP code, though I've never gotten it to work, and running the patch script that comes with SpeakUP is what patches the kernel. Others can correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not sure why module-assistant was added for Debian and seems like just another complication tossed into the process, so I'm looking for a different distro that doesn't depend on 5 million lines of perl script just to keep it working. Debian already has 7 (that I know of) interfaces into the package manager alone, each with extensive documentation. Michael