Re: Should guix-emacs-autoload-packages use GUIX_ENVIRONMENT?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> Kyle Meyer (2017-07-25 21:40 -0400) wrote:
>
>> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> 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…?

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Ricardo

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