Hi Guix, I recently moved all my Emacs packages to a separate profile, which is controlled by a manifest that’s generated from my init.org configuration file. I like this, because I can separately upgrade packages from my main profile and keep my Emacs configuration self-contained.
What still annoys me, though, is that package installation is separate from configuration. I don’t really want to be forced to update the manifest at the top of my init.org before I can configure the package somewhere at the bottom of the init.org. The “use-package” macro was designed to allow for both installation and configuration in the same place. By default it uses package.el to install packages when they aren’t available yet. I’d like to use “use-package”, but I’d like it to install packages with Guix and also install to a separate Guix profile, preferably via a manifest. Package managers are supposed to override “use-package-ensure-function” and/or “use-package-pre-ensure-function” to use something other than package.el. Before I embark on this journey, do any of you have travel reports to share? Do you think this is worth doing? If so, where could we add this feature so that all Guix users benefit from it? Emacs-Guix? -- Ricardo
