Re: [orca-list] archlinux change

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

The ArchLinuxARM tarballs I deal with regularly have a somewhat similar 
set of packages included in them, with the addition of ssh and a text 
editor and maybe a few other utilities, none of which are related to 
accessibility. I usually install the MATE desktop, plus Orca, 
speech-dispatcher and either espeak-ng or the AUR package rhvoice-git. 
If you're using Fenrir, you will need Pulseaudio and/or alsa-utils along 
with sox, and you will need alsa-utils if you are using speakup. But 
none of this has changed since base was converted from a more inclusive 
package group to a minimal base metapackage. None of these packages were 
ever in base. The main difference now is that you will need to 
explicitly install a text-mode editor because base no longer contains 
any editor, not even vi, which even BusyBox includes. But my guess is 
that this was done to make the text editor a user choice, which I can 
understand, even though I still feel like an easy-to-use editor like 
nano should be included on a minimal system just in case the user 
installing the system forgets to add one. A text editor is just too 
important to be without if someone installing a new system inadvertently 
leaves it out, but then I guess there is still pacman for that.

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