running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode

[pbrobinson]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:48 PM, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> this message is mainly going to packagers, but anyone who has any
> suggestions should feel free to reply.
>
> On gentoo, the earlier versions of speech-dispatcher could be run easily
> as root so that they could be used system wide. ?However, the current
> release does not support doing this by default.
>
> This thread is not about discussing the merrits or lack there of for
> running speech-dispatcher as root; that is a whole different topic.
> What I am interested in finding out is what other packagers are doing
> about this issue. ?Did you have speech-dispatcher in its earlier
> versions set up to run as root? ?What are you doing with this new
> version?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Its something that's on my list to look at for Fedora at some point.
It would be nice to have an upstream distro agnostic way of doing this
so its good to get an on list discussion for this.

Peter