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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:12:17PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Ferris McCormick wrote:
> >
> > If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two
> > versions of the "minimal CD".  Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is
> > discriminating against people who cannot see the screen, and I would
> > consider that to be very tacky at best.
> >
> > Someone (rdalek1967) said the problem was an extra 2.5 hours time for
> > download over dialup.  If that is correct, we are looking at 12.5 hours
> > instead of 10 hours (about 25% increase, but 10 hours is a long time,
> > and I don't know that 12.5 hours is subjectively that much longer).
> >
> > So, to answer William's original question, one way or another we should
> > provide a minimal CD with the speech software on it in my opinion.

Keep in mind that if we produce a separate cd with the speech software,
that means yet another cd for each architecture that we know the speech
software runs on, so I think the better route would be to just put it on
all of our media that we produce for the affected architectures instead
of asking releng to produce a separate cd for each release or autobuild.

- -- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
willi...@gentoo.org
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