From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Spencer Baugh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Managing environments (Python venv, guix environment, etc.) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:05:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87oa5mvotr.fsf@earth.catern.com> References: <87y453sy0n.fsf@earth.catern.com> <87r3arripr.fsf@earth.catern.com> <874m7jygot.fsf@earth.catern.com> <83oa5ox21u.fsf@gnu.org> <123d2ae9-b523-5d5b-3bf8-c6e4462270b8@yandex.ru> <87a8h7wihs.fsf@earth.catern.com> <83shuzt8iz.fsf@gnu.org> <87y44rudzi.fsf@earth.catern.com> <834m7evry3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469387212 20262 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2016 19:06:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 21:06:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bROjb-00075Z-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 21:06:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bROja-00060e-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bROj3-00060Z-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bROj1-00028Y-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from catern.com ([104.131.201.120]:58735 helo=mail.catern.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bROiv-00028H-PR; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.catern.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 273925020A; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:05:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=catern.com; s=default; t=1469387159; bh=9U6QeGJ+YjsNguP9CG0fWyNScOBeUqdoeck3Fir/+Ik=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date; b=XwYYojbE1VpeQnlvu7Z6bTMzCJg/UqNVhtZzqjaVwCWas4VrSou0unaOYJPQtDP7O mzATVsdl2eYYlc54IpP/J/pzv33n0/4/oUFE/jb9MlEwnR3QcadXbpv/r2ufEStT6k zS9e9J4/cy1ikaRfIw2h8EXkXBoq6gaY9Vbu9zZk= In-Reply-To: <834m7evry3.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 104.131.201.120 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206091 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Tweaking exec-path will have a much more dramatic and wide effect, so > we should try to avoid that, IMO. Why would the effect be so significant? Is exec-path used internally somehow in some confusing and tricky way? If it's just Elisp using exec-path, it doesn't seem like messing with exec-path would be that subtle or difficult.