[arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak

[Doug Newgard]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:25:19 -0500
"brent s." <bts at square-r00t.net> wrote:

> On 2/13/19 3:16 PM, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm having some issues with installing brltty. The problem is, it
> > depends on espeak but I'm using the espeak-ng from community and it is
> > giving me the unresolvable conflicts problem for that reason.
> > 
> > I don't think that brltty actually needs espeak at all, and it could
> > probably be listed as an optional dependancy along with espeak-ng.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Storm  
> 
> hopefully polyzen is on this list.
> 
> polyzen-
> 
> any reason why you couldn't add espeak to espeak-ng's provides? seems
> like it's mostly compatible, at least from the interface and lib level:
> 
> https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng#espeak-compatibility
> 

Libs are different, so it's not a drop-in replacement. Provides would be
incorrect.