Subject: Re: bug#65575: [PATCH v2 4/4] gnu: emacs: Reload subdirs.el files in 'guix-emacs-autoload-packages'.

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:55:14 +0200

Am Montag, dem 28.08.2023 um 11:16 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> This fixes a regression introduced with 79cfe30f3 ("build-system:
> emacs: Use subdirectories again.") which caused the
> 'guix-emacs-autoload-packages' to no longer be able to autoload all
> packages.
> 
> * gnu/packages/aux-files/emacs/guix-emacs.el
> (guix-emacs-autoload-packages-called): New variable.
> (guix-emacs-autoload-packages): Reload subdirs.el files on all but
> the first call of this procedure, or when a prefix argument is
> provided.
What's the reason to still keep the variable?   Even if we call load-
file with 'noerror, the way in which it is set is quite weird and imho,
it would keep things simpler if we had the clear semantics of
  universal-argument → reload
  no universal-argument → no reload
or the other way round.