Hi Jorge, "Jorge P. de Morais Neto" <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi. To begin, thank you for your work on GNU! > > I use Guix package manager (manually installed) atop Debian bullseye. > My Emacs is from Guix package emacs-next with a package transformation > option to pull from current Git master. When I tried to use the new > emoji commands on the "C-x 8e" prefix, I was getting an error message > (sorry for not having written it down) mentioning transient. I solved > it by modifying Guix recipes to not pull emacs-transient as propagated > input of some Emacs packages I installed via Guix. > > So, why do many Emacs packages still pull emacs-transient, when Guix has > Emacs version 28.1, which has Transient built-in? This redundancy > wastes (a little bit of) bandwidth, install time and disk space, and, > worse, causes errors. I guess it's simply an oversight. Could you try to removing it from the affected packages and see if they still byte compile and run happily? If they do, a patch would be welcome. Thanks! Maxim
