Re: Proof of Concept: Import Emacs' use-packaged packages into Guix' manifest.scm

[Mitchell Schmeisser via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

Right you are, I am quite new to mailing lists and I thought emacs would “do the right thing”.

- Mitchell 

> On Dec 27, 2022, at 4:15 AM, Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> wrote:
> 
> 2022-12-26 14:20 mitchellschmeisser@librem.one:
> 
>> Perhaps you are thinking about this upside down?
>> 
>> emacs has support for guix via `emacs-guix`.
>> Would it not make more sense to make a drop in replacement for
>> `use-package` which is syntactically identical but instead of
>> downloading stuff from the emacs package eco-system it installs it from
>> guix into a special emacs managed profile.
>> 
>> Then to use it you would just install the `guix-emacs-use-package`
>> instead of `emacs-use-package`.
>> 
>> - Mitchell
> 
> That's an interesting idea, thanks for sharing. I think it'd be nice if you shared it not only with me but with the whole mailing-list (guix-devel).