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

[Alex Kost]

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.

-- 
Alex