On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:26:47AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > Andreas Enge (2015-12-05 23:49 +0300) wrote: > > > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> 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 <alez...@gmail.com> 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 >
