Bug#492974: Installing libgnome-speech7 results in both espeak and festival being installed

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Mon Oct 25 01:20:26 UTC 2010


Sam Morris, le Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:40:57 +0100, a écrit :
> Installing libgnome-speech7 pulls in both espeak and festival. Only one
> of these is really required at once.

Well, that's questionable: espeak provides many languages, while
festival is a nicer engine for a couple of languages. The espeak
dependency is quite strong since it's a direct library link. The
festival dependency is not, and indeed is a Recommends ATM, so you can
indeed drop festival if you do not want it.  Should this really be
lowered to a suggest?

Samuel






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