I'm newbie to Guix and know little about Guix jargon. I'm sorry about that my words make you puzzled. >? The source of what? I mean the emacs package in guix source, the emacs-next package, precisely. >> will record its modification of EMACSLOADPATH in profile, > >Where is it recorded? Which modification? What is "EMACSLOADPATH in profile"? The package definition of emacs-next has native-search-path field, which add customized EMACSLOADPATH environment variable. And I guess it modified ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile. If you still doesn't understand, please ask me again, thanks!