On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 09:33:00AM +0100, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> > Could you move to video.scm, inherit from ‘ffmpeg’, and arrange to
> > reduce duplication as much as possible?
> 
> But then, I have to make it public, and that would pollute namespace,
> wouldn't it?

I believe you can use the 'hidden-package' procedure instead of
'package' to address the use case of exported packages that should not
appear in the Guix UI (for example, `guix package --search`).