[Nix-dev] emacsPackages

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:18:32 +0200, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> the problem with the current scheme is you cannot install a non-default
> version of an Emacs package into a profile and keep it up-to-date with
> nix-env -u \*. If you update the profile, you'll be switched back to
> whatever happens to be listed first in all-packages.nix. The only
> reliable way to refer to an Emacs package is by attribute. Under these
> circumstances, it's a mistake to use "recurseIntoAttrs" with more than
> one package set.
> 
> I guess, what we should do is bake the emacs version used to build that
> package into the package name -- like we do in haskellPackages --, but I
> don't have time to make those changes right now. :-(

To understand the situation: with python we have the same problem, or?

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