Comment 4 for bug 196135

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Lorenzo Taylor <email address hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Ok; I'm sure we could Recommend: freepats and Suggest: fluid-soundfont
right now. However, this would break the current config file. I'll
upload a debdiff with a primitive change now.

The version of fluid soon to be included in Debian (and afterward,
sync'd) includes example timidity configurations.