Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

[Alex Kost]

Konrad Hinsen (2018-03-26 10:24 +0200) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> But what your "current profile" is?  How can emacs know about it?  It
>> "knows" only about the default (system and user) profiles.  So if you
>
> I'd say Emacs knows nothing at all about profiles. It's Guix that
> manages profiles for everyone else, be it bash, Python, or Emacs. To get
> the behavior that I expected, Guix would have to define and manage an
> environment variable, let's call it EMACS_PATH, which would be used in
> site-start.el.
>
> What I cannot judge is how much effort it would be to implement such a
> feature, and if it could have undesirable side-effects.

As for me, I think the current behaviour (looking for packages only in
the user and the system profiles) is the right one.  If you want to
auto-load emacs packages from some non-standard profiles, you can easily
do this on your own (as I showed in the previous message).

Anyway, if you think that some feature is missing, I would recommend to
send a message to <address@hidden> about it.  Perhaps other people
will agree with your point.

-- 
Alex