home-environment + local git development

home-environment + local git development

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, I'm wanting to hack on emacs-guix from a local git checkout. Also, I use guix home with a home-environment file. emacs-guix includes related instructions for using emacs-guix from a local git checkout, but I'm having some issues trying to integrate that into my home environment. This leads me to two separate, but loosely related questions:

(1) in a home-environment file, is there a way I can specify to install the dependencies of a package (emacs-guix) but not the package itself?

(2) in a home-environment file, is there a way to specify that I want to install a package from a local guix.scm file (i.e., the one included in the emacs-guix repo)?

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Re: home-environment + local git development

[Christopher Howard]

For posterity, this gave me what I needed:

``` guile scheme
(map cadr (package-propagated-inputs emacs-guix))
```

So I could do

``` guile scheme
(home-environment
  ;; Below is the list of packages that will show up in your
  ;; Home profile, under ~/.guix-home/profile.
 (packages (append
            (map cadr (package-propagated-inputs emacs-guix))
            emacs-packages
            (specifications->packages
             (list "abook"
                   "anki"
                   ...etc...
```

I imagine a package transformation is also possible, to install emacs-guix straight from my local clone, but I haven't looked into this yet.

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Christopher Howard