Re: Emacs interface for Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2014-07-21 20:04 +0400) wrote:

[...]

>> I think guix.el should be able to distinguish packages internally, so
>> that when I choose, say, a specific “guile-2.0.11”, that’s really the
>> one that gets installed (maybe it already does, I haven’t checked.)
>
> No it doesn't and I don't see how it can be done.

A trick that may work is to propagate Scheme-side eq?-ness to the elisp
side using ‘object-address’: (object-address some-package) returns a
number that uniquely identifies ‘some-package’ for the duration of the
Guile session.

[...]

> I didn't think much about it, but right now this is the only workaround
> I can imagine.  What do you think?

What do you think of the trick above?

Ludo’.