Comment 3 for bug 196135
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| Lorenzo Taylor (lorenzo.taylor) wrote Re: [Bug 196135] Re: Timidity shouldn't depend on freepats | #3 |
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Well, basically the problem is that if someone wishes to install
timidity and use a different set of patches or a soundfont, freepats
must still be installed. Even a recommend for freepats would be better
than a dependency, since timidity could be installed without it and
fluid could be used with minor modifications to the config file by the
user. The main problem is that freepats is just too incomplete, so most
people are probably going to use something more complete, which is why
the option to install without freepats is necessary. Further
modifications to the config file or a recommend for fluid instead of
freepats could be done at a later time, but I thought that since there
is now an alternative that is complete, that it should be recommended
and there should be no dependency on an incomplete set of patches.