Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

>> can I express "any version of ffmpeg"?
>
> No, this would go against the goals of Guix: packages can't depend on properties of the environment they'll end up in (if any).

What’s the right way to deal with this, then? I need ffmpeg at as
propagated-input, but I do not want to create a conflict with a manifest
that just defines "ffmpeg".

Best wishes,
Arne
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