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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mps-youtube
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:20:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871syuarph.fsf@duckhunt.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twbqgf80.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is>

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ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes:

>>> So far they are in (inputs). Are those supposed to be installed by the users themselves?
>>
>> For optional dependencies (i.e. if mps-youtube gracefully handles
>> missing ffmpeg), leaving it up to the user is good (but then it should
>> not be an input). For "hard" runtime dependencies, the absolute paths
>> must be recorded so that they won't get garbage collected.
>>
>
> With the info I gave above, I'd say I remove the dependencies
> which are not found and add information to the description.
> For example: … it can be used with either mpv or mplayer, for
> optional format conversion you need to use ffmpeg.
>
> What do you think?

That sounds sensible. It seems to handle the case where those are
missing as well, which is good.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-02 10:40 [PATCH] mps-youtube ng0
2016-11-02 10:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add python-pafy ng0
2016-11-02 17:27   ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-04 18:18     ` ng0
2016-11-04 18:41       ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-04 18:52         ` ng0
2016-11-04 19:23           ` [PATCH] mps-youtube, revision 3 ng0
2016-11-04 19:23             ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add python-pafy ng0
2016-11-04 19:23             ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add mps-youtube ng0
2016-11-04 19:42             ` [PATCH] mps-youtube, revision 3 Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-05 12:33               ` Marius Bakke
2016-11-05 12:49                 ` ng0
2016-11-02 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add mps-youtube ng0
2016-11-02 12:34 ` [PATCH] mps-youtube Marius Bakke
2016-11-02 13:53   ` ng0
2016-11-02 14:20     ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2016-11-02 14:24     ` [PATCH] mps-youtube, revision 2 ng0
2016-11-02 14:24       ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add python-pafy ng0
2016-11-02 14:24       ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add mps-youtube ng0

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