From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: beets: Update to 1.3.19. Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 22:48:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20160809024849.GA6974@jasmine> References: <1469831979.401650.680828161.4A5CCB9D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160729232420.GA16663@jasmine> <1470263920.2786216.685350833.2EB326FC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160807023947.GD11896@jasmine> <1470686133.886135.689514601.1897789E@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWx6I-0005uy-EG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:49:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWx6C-0004Bu-HE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:49:05 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:47518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWx6A-000491-87 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:49:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1470686133.886135.689514601.1897789E@webmail.messagingengine.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" To: Alex Griffin Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote: > Thanks for the feedback Leo! > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016, at 09:39 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > > Do you know how it works for Beets on "traditional" distros? > > In Debian, some plugins' dependencies are optional, and the user has to > install them explicitly. That's sort of what we're doing, except Guix > doesn't have optional dependencies so you can't look at the package > metadata to figure out what to install. > > I don't think this approach works with python dependencies though, > because you'll need to mess with the package description to get those > working. If someone wanted to use the replaygain plugin with the > gstreamer backend instead, for example, they couldn't just install > python-gst. > > I have one more patch coming to enable the acoustic fingerprinting > plugin, then all the plugins I use will work. I think I'm just going to > hard-code its dependencies for now, but we may need to use another > approach if anyone wants to enable a bunch of other plugins. Thanks for the explanation. I guess we will decide what to do when we need to make a decision :)