Re: Why Emacs is echoing message for each installed Emacs package while startup

[Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>]

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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> [...]
>
>>> > But, why is the message is shown?  Can someone remove it?  It would
>>> > probably be better that I myself clone the repo, fix it and send the
>>> > patch, but my hard disk space isn't allowing me to do that.  Is it
>>> > possible disable that message by modifing any Guix configuration file?
>>
>>> Like Simon, I do not see why the autoloads-related messages are a
>>> problem; they only occur when starting Emacs from scratch.  If you have
>>> so many packages that the loading time or loading messages bothers you,
>>> you may want to consider running Emacs as a server and connecting to it
>>> via emacsclient; that way you load it once when you login to your
>>> session for example and that's it.
>>
>>> For what it's worth, the messages are not printed by that custom Guix
>>> Elisp code explicitly but by the Emacs function `load', on line 59 of
>>> guix-emacs.el: (load f 'noerror).  If it really bothers you could change
>>> it to:
>>
>>> (load f 'noerror 'nomessage)
>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>
>>> Maxim
>>
>>
>> The messages also appear when viewing the *Async-native-compile-log* when Emacs is native compiling packages. And the all of the "loading packages" messages are repeated before /each/ package that is compiled.
>
> That's not with the Emacs in Guix I guess, since we do not yet have
> native compilation enabled.  But it seems like the problem here is not
> the printing of the messages, but why when natively compiling packages
> it would cause all the packages to be reloaded for each package... which
> is crazy.
>
> Maxim

But why Emacs isn't built with native compilation support?  Any
technical issue or just someone hasn't done it yet?

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Akib Azmain Turja

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