Hi Ronny, I don't quite agree: you might have installed a separate soundfont other than freepats. Also, this is really a matter for timidity: openttd recommends timidity and shouldn't care about sound fonts or other things to make timidity work. Finally, the definition for Recommends from the policy manual [1] says:
Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
[1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
So I think timidity recommending freepats is really just ok. If you
disable recommends, then it's your own responsibility to clean up the
mess that creates, IMHO. I think that since lenny (or perhaps squeeze?)
the recommends relations in the Debian archive have mostly been
reviewed, so that recommends should be used sparingly now and so that
recommended pakages can just be installed in nearly all installations.
Gr.
Matthijs
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