Description of problem: This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782791 in a Fedora context. espeak's portaudio dependency (and therefore, jack dependency) cause both portaudio and jack to be pulled into the live images. What do we lose if we go pulse-only for espeak? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20120229 live image How reproducible: 100%
I don't believe we lose anything. Not sure if it's a module that could be moved into a sub package so for the minimal possibly that people use it they could install a sub package
(In reply to comment #1) > I don't believe we lose anything. Not sure if it's a module that could be moved > into a sub package so for the minimal possibly that people use it they could > install a sub package It cannot be moved into subpackage. I am not against drop, but to be sure I wrote to devel mailing list.
Indeed, a subpackage is not possible in the current state of the code. The backend is hardcoded inside the executable. The optional runtime backend switchability I wrote and got upstreamed works by adding a third set of backend functions which wrap the real functions with code like if (PulseAudio running) pulse_foo(); else port_foo();, but both backends need to be compiled into the executable. A plugin system would be more work.
espeak-1.46.02-3.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/espeak-1.46.02-3.fc17
Package espeak-1.46.02-3.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing espeak-1.46.02-3.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-3188/espeak-1.46.02-3.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
espeak-1.46.02-3.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.