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[PATCH 0/3] Various improvements to Notmuch

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Message #38 received at 50077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo <at> zancanaro.id.au>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
Cc: 50077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guix-devel <at> gnu.org,
 Xinglu Chen <public <at> yoctocell.xyz>, Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
Subject: Re: [bug#50077] Separate ‘emacs’ output vs
 separate ‘emacs-’
 package (was Re: [bug#50077] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: notmuch: Add separate
 'emacs' output.)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:25:32 +1000

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

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