Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> writes:

>> Propagated inputs could lead to conflicts in a Guix profile.  The
>> simplest example I could remember is - you want upgrade package ‘A’
>> which propagates ‘direnv’, but you cannot because package ‘B’ propagates
>> it too.  In this case you need to upgrade both ‘A’ and ‘B’ or delete ‘A’
>> (or ‘B’).
>
> Would there be a conflict if they both propagated the same input (in
> this case the direnv binary)?

No conflict for the same input.  ;-)

> diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> index 946d01cba5..6eb5bc9d39 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages sphinx)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages xdisorg)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages shells)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages shellutils)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages sqlite)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages gnupg)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages video)
> @@ -2020,7 +2021,7 @@ Its features are:
>  (define-public emacs-direnv
>    (package
>      (name "emacs-direnv")
> -    (version "2.0.0")
> +    (version "2.1.0")
>      (source
>       (origin
>         (method git-fetch)
> @@ -2030,8 +2031,20 @@ Its features are:
>         (file-name (git-file-name name version))
>         (sha256
>          (base32
> -         "005ibyzsx1fdyrl5iyhqpb1bg83mphzahq7zvw58x00syyqi2z49"))))
> +         "0xkqn4604k2imas6azy1www56br8ls4iv9a44pxcd8h94j1fp44d"))))

Could you send a separate patch for direnv update, please?

>      (build-system emacs-build-system)
> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:phases
> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +         (add-after 'unpack 'patch-in-direnv
> +           (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +             (let* ((direnv-path (assoc-ref inputs "direnv"))
> +                    (direnv-bin (string-append
> +                                 "\"" direnv-path "/bin/direnv\"")))
> +               (substitute* "direnv.el"
> +                 (("\"direnv\"") direnv-bin))))))))
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("direnv" ,direnv)))
>      (propagated-inputs
>       `(("dash" ,emacs-dash)
>         ("with-editor" ,emacs-with-editor)))
> -- 
> 2.26.2

This will make the following change: