From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ffmpeg. Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:51:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20131201145129.GA6641@debian> References: <20131031221901.GA21979@debian> <87mwln66dr.fsf@gnu.org> <20131102074708.GA18924@debian> <20131127225054.GA11343@debian> <20131130204426.GA4174@debian> <87mwkltrex.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vn8N3-0001WU-5i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:51:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vn8Mv-0001DN-Rt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:51:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mwkltrex.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:12:54AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The samples wouldn’t really have to be “packaged”: they’d just be an > input. For someone using substitutes, the samples are not going to be a > problem (because they’ll never be downloaded.) However, it is indeed a > problem when building things locally. Well, so far the only way I have been told to get them is via rsync. So one might need to create a .tar(.gz?) from the download. And in any case, an input means a package variable, no? Andreas