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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8
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Thorsten Kampe, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 09:33:04 +0100, a écrit :
> * Samuel Thibault (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:08:31 +0800)
> > Version 3.8 of "brltty" has been uploaded.
> > 
> > Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal.
> > Brltty is a background process (daemon) providing access to the Windows
> > Console for a blind person using a refreshable braille display.
> 
> Aah, wonderful. But why are we all by default blind? I mean: why is it 
> in the "Base" category?!

Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package?

Are packages from the Base category automatically installed?

(Note that Ubuntu installs brltty by default too).

Samuel

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