From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mpv-minimal. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:29:55 -0500 Message-ID: <20151223192955.GC16116@jasmine> References: <87d1um2o3f.fsf@gmail.com> <20151204171327.GD6556@debian> <87poykbui6.fsf@gmail.com> <20151205212843.249e6062@debian-netbook> <20151205204918.GB28666@debian> <87io3pmuyg.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBp6l-0003ho-N1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:30:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBp6h-0004h7-JV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:29:59 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:42197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBp6h-0004gr-Eu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:29:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87io3pmuyg.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:26:47AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > Andreas Enge (2015-12-05 23:49 +0300) wrote: > > > Alex Kost writes: > >> I'm personally for it, but there may be users who need mpv with samba > >> support, so I'm not sure if it is right. I thought that default Guix > >> packages should be full-featured, no? > > > > No idea. I am not sure we need windows support :-) (or whatever this is > > exactly). If nobody needs it and some feel disturbed, we may as well > > remove it for the time being and think again once someone requests it. > > I agree! > > Mark H Weaver (2015-12-19 03:02 +0300) wrote: > > > Alex Kost writes: > >> What about removing samba input instead as Andreas suggested: > >> > > > > I have no objection to this, but then I'm not an 'mpv' user and I don't > > know what functionality would be lost. I'll leave it to others to > > decide. > > I am an mpv user and I would really like to get rid of this samba > output, as it is heavy-weight and IIUC the lost functionality would be > an impossibility to play audio/video files from remote resources > connected using samba (which most likely are "MS Windows" partitions). > > So if other people do not object, I'm going to remove 'samba' output > from 'mpv' package. I suggest making it a separate output so that users can get the functionality if they need but the default package does not include it. I can try it in the next couple of days — I've been meaning to learn how to create multiple outputs for a package. > > -- > Alex >