[PD] .deb depends WAS: pd-flite text-to-speech offline ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>> I guess, then this "audio" meta package should depend on "pd", not  
>>> on
>>> "puredata", which could then be fullfilled with either "puredata" or
>>> "pd-extended" (but currently not both ...)
>>
>>
>> What's the 'audio' meta package?  In general, packages should  
>> depend on
>> 'pd' unless they really need a specific version (vanilla, extended,  
>> DD,
>> etc.).
>
> I was referring to Tim's offlist mail that you quoted, and I got the  
> name
> wrong: It's called "ubuntustudio-audio". Tim's error was:
>
> ubuntustudio-audio depends on puredata
>
> so he couldn't install pd-extended, which "only" provides "pd". I  
> assume that
> "ubuntustudio-audio" is a meta-package which in itself is empty, but  
> it depends
> on a lot of useful audio packages, so they can be install in one  
> command. If
> "upbuntustudio-audio" would depend on pd, not on puredata, than pd- 
> extended and
> puredata both could provide "pd" and make ubuntustudio-audio as  
> happy as a dog
> with two tails. :)

Couldn't have said it better myself.  As a workaround, you can install  
ubuntustudio-audio, then it'll install everything.  Then you can "apt- 
get remove ubuntustudio-audio puredata", then apt-get install pd- 
extended" or however.

.hc


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