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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add sonata
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:18:07 +0100
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Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/mpd.scm (sonata): New variable.
>
> This is really cool, thanks!  Sonata was my main music player back in
> the day and I'm glad to see that it's being maintained again.  I
> cleaned it up somewhat, built it, and ran it.  I'm hesitant to push
> the patch right now, though, and I hope someone who knows more about
> Python can help me clear some things up.
>
> I don't like that gtk+ and gobject-introspection need to be propagated
>  Could anyone familiar with creating Python bindings for C libraries
> tell me if it would be possible to patch pygobject to include the
> absolute path to the gtk+ and gobject-introspection libraries?  This
> has been the strategy for avoiding propagation of C libraries within
> Guile packages, and I'm hoping it applies here.

Yeah, propagating gtk+ is bad.  I’d like to remove it from all packages
that currently do this.  It bloats profiles and causes conflicts.

~~ Ricardo