On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:26:46 +0200
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Kei Yamashita (2016-03-28 06:09 +0300) wrote:
> >  
> >> On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 10:23:37 +0300
> >> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:  
> >>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 07:54:40PM -0400, kei@openmailbox.org
> >>> wrote:  
> > [...]  
> >>> > +    (arguments
> >>> > +     '(#:configure-flags `("--without-alsa"
> >>> > "--without-jack")))  
> >>>
> >>> In addition to Nil's comments, I was wondering about the configure
> >>> flags. Wouldn't it make sense to have either alsa or jack as an
> >>> input?  
> >>
> >> Milkytracker works fine without it on my machine. I feel like it's
> >> a matter of allowing the user options or sticking to the minimal
> >> build.  
> >
> > In my understanding (I may be wrong) our policy is to provide
> > full-featured software, so the features shouldn't be disabled
> > without a reason.  Sometimes we add minimal packages (e.g.,
> > "bash-minimal", "cups-minimal") if they are needed, but this is not
> > such a case.
> >
> > So I think you should remove these --without-… flags.  And thanks
> > for contributing!  
> 
> I agree.  Also, JACK and ALSA are ubiquitous among Guix audio/music
> packages.  When the programme comes with support for ALSA and JACK
> backends by default I think we should not disable it.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo
> 

Noted. New patch attached.