[BRLTTY] Blue tooth support in the Fedora package

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Wed May 1 11:17:57 EDT 2013


Hi, Dave!

You wrote:

> Brltty works just fine with Bluetooth on Fedora.

Yes, if you build the package yourself. If you however use the package
from the Fedora or updates repository, bluetooth support is missing,
due to the missing build request for bluez-libs-devel.

> >I've played around with build options and nothing I do seems to generate a BT 
> >driver or link against bluez-libs. ---
> 
> You're trying to define a non-problem by assumptions. Brltty neither creates a 
> Bluetooth driver nor links against the bluez libraries. It simply opens a 
> Bluetooth socket and uses it.

Yes, not me, but the Fedora package maintainer.

I'll give him the information.

Thanks and regards,

Lars


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