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[PATCH] Add spacemacs package

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Message #19 received at 38643-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38643-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, saffronsnail <saffronsnail <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#38643: [PATCH] Add spacemacs package
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 20:12:51 +0200

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> What is the next action?  Is it worth to include it despite the fact
> that:
>
>         > Do I get it right that Spacemacs will try to fetch the
>         > packages it needs via pkg.el (ELPA)?
>         >
>         > Longer-term, it would be nice if it could fetch packages
>         > through Guix, using Emacs-Guix.  Are you familiar with this
>         > part of Spacemacs?
>
>         I agree that this should be the long-term plan, though I would
>         like to avoid the overhead of maintaining each individual ELPA
>         package separately. I have not `guix import`ed an ELPA package
>         before, but I know that for some other imports manual fixup is
>         needed. Do you know if this is the case for ELPA? If so, I would
>         prefer to work on a way to fix that than to manually maintain
>         dozens of packages.
>
> or do we drop it?

Given that it hasn’t seen any activity, I believe we can close it for
now.  I’d love to see proper Spacemacs integration, but for that we need
saffronsnail or another Spacemacs-savvy person to champion it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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