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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>,
	Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>,
	47458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:43:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbd14e7fe65ca52ad07557ae58f30dc55b6aef4b.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48be53a43407c9a298bc1abe798f7744a07ed9fa.camel@telenet.be>

Am Montag, den 29.03.2021, 10:24 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 10:07 +0200, Leo Prikler wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > In a similar manner, if I see an Emacs version upgrade at the start
> > of
> > the transaction, I already know to prepare for a little environment
> > variable dance to get it to start correctly.  I think there has
> > been an
> > idea to update environment variables in GNOME Shell directly, for
> > instance, but
> > a. we're lacking the technology to do so at the moment (e.g. guile-
> > dbus)
> 
> Actually, we do have dbus bindings for guile (actually, a
> reimplementation
> of dbus in (Guile) Scheme): guile-ac-d-bus.  It doesn't support file
> descriptor
> passing (at least on Guile, other Schemes may differ) though, but
> that's
> probably not required for this.
Thanks for pointing this out!  Now I can finally write Guile code to
update all those environment variables.  (Hopefully this lets us do
polkit in Guix as well.)





  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-29  2:02 bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix Mark H Weaver
2021-03-29  8:07 ` Leo Prikler
2021-03-29  8:24   ` Maxime Devos
2021-03-29  8:43     ` Leo Prikler [this message]
     [not found] ` <20210330184101.7643-1-leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
2021-04-04  4:35   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-04-04  7:49     ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-06 12:09       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-04-06 15:49         ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-07 19:46           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-05-20 13:24             ` Maxim Cournoyer

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