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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Efraim Flashner (2015-12-24 12:14 +0300) wrote:
>
> [...]
>> I looked at the MPV github page and the syntax for MPV over built-in
>> samba is 'mpv smb://user:address@hidden:/full/path/to/file.ext' and
>> without tab completion and without support for .netrc or .smb.conf I
>> would never do that. Once the directory is mounted locally it doesn't
>> need samba to play networked content.
>>
>> Now that I've looked at it more it seems samba support isn't really a
>> useful feature for mpv.
>
> Great news, thanks for looking at it!  Now this looks like a
> not-very-common feature indeed.  I'll wait for other objections for a
> week or so before removing 'samba' input from 'mpv' package (although I
> would still prefer to have an 'mpv-minimal' package).

Either way (removing Samba from MPV’s dependencies, or adding an
‘mpv-minimal’ package) is fine with me.

Ludo’.