On Thu, Sep 02 2021, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 01 2021, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
>> TL;DR: I'm generally in favor of branching emacs support 
>> packages off, even if origins are to be inherited.
>
> This is my preference, and there is precedent for this in Guix 
> already. I know of emacs-protobuf-mode and emacs-erlang which are 
> separate packages, but which reference the source of an existing 
> package (with (package-source protobuf) and (package-source 
> erlang), respectively).
>
> I like how easy it is to discover Emacs packages by looking for 
> the emacs- prefix. Mu and notmuch already violate that prefix 
> expectation, moving their elisp into a separate output would be 
> further hiding the Emacs modes.
>
> Carlo

Looks like there is consensus on the matter, unless someone objects, I
will send an updated series that adds ‘emacs-notmuch’ instead of adding
an extra output to ‘notmuch’.  :-)

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