From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brettg@posteo.net Subject: bug#38261: Recent changes to emacs build system Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:32:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3bb8ddae57a7890e08438eda424bad34@posteo.net> References: <848bb376e0d6e171347afe53ce79bd96@posteo.net> <421db4d1a206488fa1883e40666846c5@posteo.net> <805ec3dde9328f427bc34126c36735d3@posteo.net> <70112f45226b44a1234a4d41aa7ac610@posteo.net> <26711cb3bba8555dea8ac4e9f8220726@posteo.net> <57dee66c6531e9c8afbc5a22518d9917@posteo.net> <87ftijwou1.fsf@gmail.com> <874kyzwo66.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60150) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB7P-0007QA-S5 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:33:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB7O-0002gw-JQ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:33:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB7O-0002gr-GE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:33:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB7O-0001at-BX for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:33:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB71-0007LZ-49 for Bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:32:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB6y-0002Sn-St for Bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:32:38 -0500 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:50548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXB6v-0002Op-Bb for Bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:32:36 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09941160063 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:32:31 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <874kyzwo66.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Maxim Cournoyer Cc: bug-Guix , Bug guix On 19.11.2019 22:29, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > brettg@posteo.net writes: > > [...] > >> Thank you for your work Maxim, I think most of them are resolved >> now. I do wonder about what prompted the change, though. Perhaps you >> might share? >> >> Brett > > The main motivation was to gain the ability to install Emacs in a given > profile and have it use the Elisp libraries installed in said profile > (and only from that profile). Using a search path specification is the > native Guix mechanism to find libraries for systems that mostly rely on > the FHS and means it work consistently across profiles, environments, > or > other features supported by Guix. > > There was a discussion here about this change and some feedback in the > two weeks it was published preceding its merge: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-11/msg00000.html. > > HTH! > > Maxim Maxim, indeed it does! I guess I was out of the loop on that conversation and it just took me by surprise! Thanks for your efforts. Best, Brett