Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mpv-minimal.

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:26:47AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> Andreas Enge (2015-12-05 23:49 +0300) wrote:
> 
> > Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
> >> I'm personally for it, but there may be users who need mpv with samba
> >> support, so I'm not sure if it is right.  I thought that default Guix
> >> packages should be full-featured, no?
> >
> > No idea. I am not sure we need windows support :-)  (or whatever this is
> > exactly). If nobody needs it and some feel disturbed, we may as well
> > remove it for the time being and think again once someone requests it.
> 
> I agree!
> 
> Mark H Weaver (2015-12-19 03:02 +0300) wrote:
> 
> > Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
> >> What about removing samba input instead as Andreas suggested:
> >> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00092.html>
> >
> > I have no objection to this, but then I'm not an 'mpv' user and I don't
> > know what functionality would be lost.  I'll leave it to others to
> > decide.
> 
> I am an mpv user and I would really like to get rid of this samba
> output, as it is heavy-weight and IIUC the lost functionality would be
> an impossibility to play audio/video files from remote resources
> connected using samba (which most likely are "MS Windows" partitions).
> 
> So if other people do not object, I'm going to remove 'samba' output
> from 'mpv' package.

I suggest making it a separate output so that users can get the
functionality if they need but the default package does not include it.

I can try it in the next couple of days — I've been meaning to learn how
to create multiple outputs for a package.

> 
> -- 
> Alex
>