Hello,

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:28:18AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Stepan Kasal on 2007/09/04 at 14:02 +0200]
> >of course, Fedora packages brltty with --prefix=/usr
> >--sysconfdir=/etc, and such.
...
> no, it's not a problem specific to Orca users. The default for brltty, at 
> least 
> as we define it, is --prefix=/ (not /usr/local). This is because /usr could 
> be 
> in a separate partition, and, therefore, not mounted right at the outset. Our 
> position is that the braille display is as important to a blind user as the 
> screen is to a sighted user, and that it should be able to become operational 
> as early as possible during the boot sequence. That's why we prefer that it 
> be 
> installed in /bin.

sounds fair.  Filed as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276181

Have a nice day,
        Stepan
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