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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>, 22981@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22981: guix-edit does not find git checkout directory
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:02:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8lnzlst.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mc9trkk.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:02:51 +0300")

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-14 01:01 +0300) wrote:
>
>> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Guix is "stateful" because, to use a git checkout, I have to set "state"
>>> variables like ...
>>>
>>>     (setq guix-directory "/home/glc/src/guix")
>>>
>>>     (let ((dir "~/dev/guix/emacs"))
>>>       (add-to-list 'load-path dir)
>>>       (setq guix-load-path dir)
>>>       (require 'guix-init nil t))
>>>
>>>     '(safe-local-variable-values
>>>        (quote
>>>         ((bug-reference-bug-regexp . "<https?://\\(debbugs\\|bugs\\)\\.gnu\\.org/\\([0-9]+\\)>")))))
>>>     (custom-set-faces
>>>
>>>     /home/glc/.config/guix/latest’ -> ‘../../src/guix'
>>>     /root/.config/guix/latest’ -> ‘/home/glc/src/GUI’
>>>
>>>
>>> Guix would be less stateful (AKA more "stateless") if instead I could
>>> put something like ...
>>>
>>>     (guix
>>>       (#:use-git #t)
>>>       (#:git-directory:"~/src/guix"))
>>
>> It seems to me that it’s not a question of “statefulness”, but rather a
>> question of how much configuration is needed to have guix.el use the
>> Guix that you want.
>
> I agree.  If someone want to use a "non-installed" software, (s)he has
> to do some additional configuration.  I don't see how to reduce such
> a configuration to set up emacs code from a guix git checkout.

Should this issue be closed?

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10 21:56 bug#22981: guix-edit does not find git checkout directory myglc2
2016-03-11 11:03 ` Alex Kost
2016-03-11 14:45   ` myglc2
2016-03-12  9:15     ` Alex Kost
2016-03-13  2:00       ` myglc2
2016-03-13  9:38         ` Alex Kost
2016-03-13 15:42           ` myglc2
2016-03-13 22:01             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-14  8:02               ` Alex Kost
2016-03-24 20:02                 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-03-25  1:18                   ` myglc2

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