Comment 2 for bug 196135

I'm hesitant to switch to Fluid as a dependency of Timidity, primarily because it is so large. However, if there is enough demand to do so, or to ship Timidity with no dependency on freepats, but a Recommend for Fluid, then either of those could easily be done, just by changing the default timidity.cfg.

Alternatively, my preferred solution would be to patch timidity.c to allow an directory as an option to the "source" configuration line, enabling timidity.cfg to specify a cfg.d directory from within which to source configurations. This way, we could have the soundfont/patch set packages themselves supply the configurations, rather than hard code them into the timidity package.

That being said, I do not think that Hardy is necessarily the time to make such a change, nor if I would have spare time to do it. What do other people think?