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

[Alex Kost]

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.

-- 
Alex