bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Leo!

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

[...]

>> Shouldn't we wrap all the binaries to be on the safe side?  Things
>> such
>> as emacsclient probably ought to have EMACSLOADPATH set correctly,
>> no?
> The remaining binaries are
> - emacsclient, which inherits its EMACSLOADPATH from the server it
> connects to
> - ctags, ebrowse and etags, which are helper binaries, that don't seem
> to rely on EMACSLOADPATH at all.  (Or is there an indicator, that they
> do?)
> - .-real binaries, that should only be wrapped once.
> We could relax the regex to include the upper two, but I don't think
> it's necessary to do so.

OK, thanks for the explanation, it makes sense.

[...]

> I'd like to avoid pushing this to master just yet, because we also have
> changes in the Emacs build system to discuss and I don't want to cause
> an "Emacs world" rebuild twice in a row.  That said, I'm including this
> patch in wip-emacs with the plan to push to master or staging once
> everything there is resolved.

Sure!  Which changes do you have in mind?  Are they already on the
tracker for review?

Thank you,

Maxim