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

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I think we should just keep it like it is currently as I agree that it 
is good to have both pulled in as if a user does not want it they can always 
remove the one they don't want but I always like to have both of these 
synthisizers on my system for different uses.  Nick Gawronski
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <sthibault at debian.org>
To: "Sam Morris" <sam at robots.org.uk>; <492974 at bugs.debian.org>; 
<debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#492974: Installing libgnome-speech7 results in both espeak 
and festival being installed


> 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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