Re: [PATCH] gnu: beets: Update to 1.3.19.

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Leo!
> 
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016, at 09:39 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > Do you know how it works for Beets on "traditional" distros?
> 
> In Debian, some plugins' dependencies are optional, and the user has to
> install them explicitly. That's sort of what we're doing, except Guix
> doesn't have optional dependencies so you can't look at the package
> metadata to figure out what to install.
> 
> I don't think this approach works with python dependencies though,
> because you'll need to mess with the package description to get those
> working. If someone wanted to use the replaygain plugin with the
> gstreamer backend instead, for example, they couldn't just install
> python-gst.
> 
> I have one more patch coming to enable the acoustic fingerprinting
> plugin, then all the plugins I use will work. I think I'm just going to
> hard-code its dependencies for now, but we may need to use another
> approach if anyone wants to enable a bunch of other plugins.

Thanks for the explanation. I guess we will decide what to do when we
need to make a decision :)