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I'm on my way to cleanup my system , started from init scripts , and found:



/etc/rcS.d/S25brltty


The description header wasn't helpful enough, and what's that used for, and if it's safe to purge ?


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The links in /etc/rc?.d/ point to scripts in /etc/init.d/. As for brltty, it sounds like an accesibility feature for some Braille thing.



First, try to find out to which package it belongs:



$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/brltty 
brltty: /etc/init.d/brltty


Well, that's clear, the brltty package is responsible for this. Let's get more information about it:



Excerpt from apt-cache show brltty:



Description-en: Access software for a blind person using a braille display
BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
display and provides complete screen review functionality.


You can safely remove it, nothing really depends on it if you do not have a braille display (checked with apt-cache rdepends brltty)


[#41545] Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 2 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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