On Wed, Sep 01 2021, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
TL;DR: I'm generally in favor of branching emacs support packages off, even if origins are to be inherited.
This is my preference, and there is precedent for this in Guix already. I know of emacs-protobuf-mode and emacs-erlang which are separate packages, but which reference the source of an existing package (with (package-source protobuf) and (package-source erlang), respectively).
I like how easy it is to discover Emacs packages by looking for the emacs- prefix. Mu and notmuch already violate that prefix expectation, moving their elisp into a separate output would be further hiding the Emacs modes.
Carlo
