From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should guix-emacs-autoload-packages use GUIX_ENVIRONMENT?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:38:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp6u5cux.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv7rge53.fsf@gmail.com>
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
> Kyle Meyer (2017-07-25 21:40 -0400) wrote:
>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Wait, isn't this what --pure is for? I haven't followed the
>>> discussion, but I would expect `guix environment` to *add* to my
>>> current profile, and use '--pure' if I want a "clean" environment.
>>
>> I think the behavior here is unspecified because --pure is about
>> unsetting shell variables while this is about how the load-path and
>> autoloads are set up within an environment's Emacs instance.
>> Conceptually, though, I agree that a --pure flag would match
>> guix-emacs-autoload-packages considering only the environment's Emacs
>> packages, whereas no --pure flag would match adding the environment's to
>> the current profile's.
>>
>> But in the discussion so far, I've been assuming that currently there's
>> not a direct way for guix-emacs-autoload-packages to detect if --pure
>> was given. If that's not true, I'd be happy with the behavior you
>> propose.
>
> I also don't see how you can detect from Emacs if it is running from
> guix environment with --pure or without.
I don’t think you can, but we could pollute the environment some more by
setting a variable that indicates that this is a pure environment…?
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-27 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-23 1:39 Should guix-emacs-autoload-packages use GUIX_ENVIRONMENT? Kyle Meyer
2017-07-23 21:12 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-23 22:29 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-07-24 21:19 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-24 22:25 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-07-25 21:33 ` Marius Bakke
2017-07-26 1:40 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-07-26 20:02 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-27 11:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-07-26 20:06 ` Alex Kost
2017-07-27 5:04 ` Kyle Meyer
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