This is a C library wich also presents a python interface. It can be used just as well without python, so I've made python only a native input, not a regular input. There's currently a non-determinism issue for the python interface, related to https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22533 I also tried to automatically generate the string “lib/python3.4/site-packages”, so it's updated automatically when the python version changes, but didn't manage to do that (for example I tried (version-major+minor (package-version python)) but the package variable “python” is not available when the build expression is turned into a derivation, as far as I understand it?). Advice welcome. Thomas