From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should guix-emacs-autoload-packages use GUIX_ENVIRONMENT?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:29:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87379mpz1a.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eft6j1s3.fsf@gmail.com>
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
> Kyle Meyer (2017-07-22 21:39 -0400) wrote:
>
>> I noticed that Emacs packages from the user's profile leak into guix
>> environment calls.
>
> As for me, this is a natural behaviour. If you want to be safe from any
> external packages, site settings, etc., run "emacs -Q".
I want "-q" rather than "-Q" because I want the Emacs instance to
autoload the Emacs packages that I've given as arguments to "guix
environment".
> I'm not sure. I think if you run "emacs -q", you really want "emacs -Q".
> Otherwise, if you start emacs normally, you probably don't want to ignore
> emacs packages from your guix profile.
Maybe I'm underestimating all the ways people use "guix environment".
When I use it, I'm interested in getting an isolated environment,
usually for testing, and in this case I don't want the Emacs packages
from my profile.
But sure, I can use "emacs -Q" and then evaluate something similar to
what Guix puts in site-start.el, modifying it to only look at
GUIX_ENVIRONMENT.
> However, I agree that GUIX_ENVIRONMENT should be honored, but as I wrote
> *not instead* but *along with* the default profiles. So if you start
> emacs like this:
>
> guix environment --ad-hoc emacs emacs-wget -- emacs
>
> it should contain emacs-wget in its load-path. WDYT?
I certainly agree with that load-path should include emacs-wget. I'm
just not sure I agree with the "along with".
Anyway, as I said above, it's easy enough to get the behavior I want
with "emacs -Q" and a custom guix-emacs-autoload-packages call.
Thanks for your thoughts.
--
Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-23 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-23 1:39 Should guix-emacs-autoload-packages use GUIX_ENVIRONMENT? Kyle Meyer
2017-07-23 21:12 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-23 22:29 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2017-07-24 21:19 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-24 22:25 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-07-25 21:33 ` Marius Bakke
2017-07-26 1:40 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-07-26 20:02 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-27 11:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-26 20:06 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-27 5:04 ` Kyle Meyer
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