I'm surprised that Pacman doesn't seem to handle this case at the moment. > > This would work, except for the fact that espeakup depends on > > espeak, so if espeakup is installed, manually removing espeak will > > automatically remove espeakup, which would then need to be manually > > reinstalled.
If a user has espeakup installed removing espeak with `Pacman -Rdd` just before installing espeakup-test would seem to be the easiest way around this. Not ideal still though. This bug report seems related: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32770 -- Regards, Anntoin