From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can I easily install GNU Emacs 27.1.50 via Guix?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:05:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ3o_eK4=2sW-gvEF-oa2Fgf2gVgYLT3NZU5ytqgHwMfwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9czmfxw.fsf@elephly.net>
Hi Ricardo,
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 13:56, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> It is a difficult but, in my opinion, necessary project, to prefix all
> these variables and to patch packages to use the prefixed variables for
> augmentation, while also making sense of the unprefixed variables
> (e.g. setting PYTHONPATH to make more Python modules available without
> having the program use PYTHONPATH by itself).
It would add complexity and I am not convinced that such complexity is
worth. Aside corner cases for a small set of packages; or say
packages that are difficult to package and not yet in Guix (for
instance PyTorch).
All the best,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-18 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 16:46 Can I easily install GNU Emacs 27.1.50 via Guix? Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-09 20:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-10 12:40 ` zimoun
2020-12-17 22:54 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-17 22:59 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-18 2:05 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 4:03 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 9:00 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 9:36 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 10:38 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 11:37 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 13:59 ` zimoun
2020-12-19 0:17 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 10:44 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-12-18 12:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-18 14:05 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-12-18 15:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-18 15:09 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-18 23:17 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 9:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-10 12:27 ` zimoun
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