Alex Kost <[email protected]> writes: > Kyle Meyer (2017-07-22 21:39 -0400) wrote: > >> I noticed that Emacs packages from the user's profile leak into guix >> environment calls. > > As for me, this is a natural behaviour. If you want to be safe from any > external packages, site settings, etc., run "emacs -Q".
I want "-q" rather than "-Q" because I want the Emacs instance to autoload the Emacs packages that I've given as arguments to "guix environment". > I'm not sure. I think if you run "emacs -q", you really want "emacs -Q". > Otherwise, if you start emacs normally, you probably don't want to ignore > emacs packages from your guix profile. Maybe I'm underestimating all the ways people use "guix environment". When I use it, I'm interested in getting an isolated environment, usually for testing, and in this case I don't want the Emacs packages from my profile. But sure, I can use "emacs -Q" and then evaluate something similar to what Guix puts in site-start.el, modifying it to only look at GUIX_ENVIRONMENT. > However, I agree that GUIX_ENVIRONMENT should be honored, but as I wrote > *not instead* but *along with* the default profiles. So if you start > emacs like this: > > guix environment --ad-hoc emacs emacs-wget -- emacs > > it should contain emacs-wget in its load-path. WDYT? I certainly agree with that load-path should include emacs-wget. I'm just not sure I agree with the "along with". Anyway, as I said above, it's easy enough to get the behavior I want with "emacs -Q" and a custom guix-emacs-autoload-packages call. Thanks for your thoughts. -- Kyle
