I checked the source of velocity and it looks like it provides two ant tasks - TexenTask and AnakiaTask. These tasks have dependency on ant for functionality. Also anyone trying to use these tasks is expected to have ant installed. None of the remaining classes in velocity.jar depend on ant. So the ant can be safely moved from depends to suggests. It is also possible to remove the dependency altogether similar to fop which provides ant tasks but does not depend on ant.
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