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Package GNU MediaGoblin as a Guix service

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From: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>
To: Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout <at> zaclys.net>
Cc: cwebber <at> dustycloud.org, 47260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jgart <jgart <at> dismail.de>
Subject: bug#47260: Package GNU MediaGoblin as a Guix service
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:05:19 +1000

On Mon, 05 Apr 2021, Léo Le Bouter wrote:

> On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 00:17 +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Apr 2021, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> 
>> > 7. Work out why H264 support is missing.
>> 
>> This is now fixed MediaGoblin's master branch guix-env.scm by adding
>> gst-libav to propagated inputs.
>
> Hello!
>
> I suggest not using propagated-inputs because they are likely to cause
> conflicts in profiles when used. I suggest intead creating wrapper
> scripts that append to the PATH variable.
>
> Examples of such wrapper scripts can be found:
>
> - 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=373e5fc96724fd38bb1263e4af90932ea36f596b
> (PYTHONPATH more so)
> - 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=00c1793ce8e2210e48b18422ea3e76da10541874
> (Append xdg-utils to PATH)
>
> Let me know if there's any questions about creating such wrappers.

Thanks Léo, I'll look into this!

Regards,
Ben

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