bug: mpd-mpris: Options available from in home-manager are wildly different from options provided by the original project maintainer

[ChionReverie]

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• My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Issue description

The Issue
While trying to enable the mpd-mpris service, I noticed that the local instance of mpd was not being listened to. In the process of trying resolve that, I found documentation which explains how to fix my issue. However, the options available to me were not the ones found in the documentation.

How did this happen?

In February 2023, a module was created for home-manager to add support for mpd-mpris. However, the original creator (@natsukagami) was not informed, and in July 2023 the creator independently created their own version, (the documentation for which is much easier to find online).

Proposed Solution

In order to prevent user-confusion, the available options within home-manager for mpd-mpris should be changed to match Natsu Kagami design. The old options should in turn be deprecated, with a note to use the new options.

Maintainer CC

@olmokramer

System information

- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.12.52, NixOS, 25.11 (Xantusia), 25.11.20251013.c12c63c`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.31.2`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/b1hmqq7kiy26q08663w45mm6wlrx1nn1-source`

[natsukagami]

Hi! (mpd-mpris maintainer here)

I think it is possible to update the current module to use something similar to the one in my repo (which is also a bit more useful as you can run multiple instances of mpd-mpris, though I suppose this is a very niche use-case). I would be down to maintain the in-tree module for home-manager, and would deprecate the one in my repo -- it doesn't work at the moment anyway due to name clashes.

[olmokramer]

Thanks for bringing this up, I hadn't seen the module in the main repo. I initially based the module on the mpdris2 module if I remember correctly, so that might be why there are some differences there. I'll gladly hand the maintainership over to you @natsukagami! You're in a better position to keep the module up to date with changes in mpd-mpris. If you can make a PR with the changes I can review it, though I don't think I have merge permissions here.