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[bug#45359] bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#45359] bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:04:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>> Ouch. “It used to be” (speaking like a veteran :-)) that Emacs in Guix
>> would not use EMACSLOADPATH. Then we switched to EMACSLOADPATH, which
>> had some advantages, but necessarily has this drawback.
>>
>> IIUC, <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45359> is about possibly
>> backtracking. Maxim, what’s the status of this one?
>
> It's abandoned, The MUMI tracker lacks the responses from Leo Prickler,
> but they had good arguments maintaining the status quo rather than going
> with the extra complexity. It also wouldn't change the issue at hand;
> it'd merely prevent conflicts of *resources* files of Emacs packages
> (and somewhat integrate with the Emacs native package manager, while
> making the autoloading a bit slower). It seems the price to pay is too
> high for such a small gain. I'm closing it now.
I see, makes sense!
> On the other hand, this very problem was the motivation for this patch
> series here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43627, which would solve the
> issue ta hand. You were skeptical of the benefits the last time you
> took a look at it; perhaps it's time to take a new look at it :-).
Ah! Now I may have to revisit it, indeed.
Thanks for explaining!
Ludo’.