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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 16:58:06 +0300
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Pierre Neidhardt (2019-10-16 21:54 +0200) wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm resurrecting this since I got bitten by this today.
>
> I'm currently writing a blog article on profiles and manifest, and I
> realized that Emacs is the only program so far that does not behave
> consistently with the rest of Guix.
>
> When I source the etc/profile where I've installed my Emacs packages,
> I'd expect the appropriate environment variables to be set so that
> `guix-emacs-autoload-packages' knows where to load the packages from.
>
> I believe the solution to be simple:
>
> 1. Make Emacs packages set XDG_DATA_DIRS in etc/profile
> 2. guix-emacs.el: Remove guix-user-profile
> 3. guix-emacs.el: Set profiles to all the paths in XDG_DATA_DIRS in the
> guix-emacs-autoload-packages function.
>
> Thoughts?

Hello, I'm not sure if my answer was expected, so just in case:
Please do whatever looks appropriate to you :-)

-- 
Alex