Re: [PATCH]: add freepats and timidity

[Andreas Enge]

Hi again,

thanks a lot for the two packages, they work for me. Nevertheless two
comments.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 07:33:59PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> +(define-public timidity++
> +  (package
> +    (name "timidity++")

Back to names... I would call this "timidity". The package guidelines only
state that underscores are replaced by "-", but the general idea would be
to replace special characters with dashes, and to rather drop them at the end
(or beginning) of a package name.

> +          (let ((out (string-append (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
> +                                    "/share/timidity")))
> +            (mkdir-p out)
> +            (call-with-output-file
> +                (string-append out "/timidity.cfg")

It is a bit strange to have config files in /share and not in /etc, but that
is indeed where by default timidity looks for its config file. Nevertheless,
I would use
  (string-append (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/etc/timidity")
and then add the configure flag
  (string-append "--with-default-path=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out") 
"/etc/timidity")

Andreas