Re: [PATCH] gnu: beets: Update to 1.3.19.

[Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>]

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.
-- 
Alex Griffin