Re: Can I easily install GNU Emacs 27.1.50 via Guix?

[Carlo Zancanaro]

Hi Simon,

On Fri, Dec 18 2020, zimoun wrote:
> > When I launch Debian's Evince from Guix's emacs-maint, Evince 
> > cannot find my local printer.  Look at the messages when I open 
> > Evince in an Emacs shell and open Evince's print dialog:
>
> Well, it seems expected, isn’t it? ...

I don't think "expected" is the right way to put this. I think 
"explainable" is more accurate. I think it's reasonable to expect 
that opening Debian's Evince from within Emacs would be able to 
find the printers. The fact that it cannot is a bug introduced by 
Guix's use of environment variables.

I run into a similar problem where my window manager (awesomewm) 
sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which then propagates to everything I run 
from my session. It's quite a pain. I thought there was an open 
issue for this, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

Carlo