Re: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes broke my setup: Bug or Feature?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Diego,

Diego Nicola Barbato <address@hidden> writes:

> Hey Guix,
>
> I've already asked about this on IRC, but since the people responsible
> for the changes didn't seem to be present I'll ask here too.
>
> I use EXWM so I've installed ‘emacs’ and ‘emacs-exwm’ in my system
> profile.  Additionally I've installed Emacs packages (‘emacs-org’,
> ‘emacs-pdf-tools’, ‘emacs-emms’, etc.) in my user profile.  Since the
> changes to the way Emacs packages are handled this no longer works,
> i.e. Emacs no longer knows about the packages installed in my user
> profile.
>
> I can work around it by installing ‘emacs’ to my user profile.  But it
> doesn't make much sense to me that I have to install ‘emacs’ “twice”
> just so an environment variable is set.
>
> Is this an intended consequence of the recent changes or should this be
> considered a bug?

This is bug #20255 [0], where the system and user profile environment
variables are not merged at the time /etc/profile is sourced.

HTH,

Maxim

[0]  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20255