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

[zimoun]

Hi Ricardo,

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 13:56, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> It is a difficult but, in my opinion, necessary project, to prefix all
> these variables and to patch packages to use the prefixed variables for
> augmentation, while also making sense of the unprefixed variables
> (e.g. setting PYTHONPATH to make more Python modules available without
> having the program use PYTHONPATH by itself).

It would add complexity and I am not convinced that such complexity is
worth.  Aside corner cases for a small set of packages; or say
packages that are difficult to package and not yet in Guix (for
instance PyTorch).

All the best,
simon