Re: Integrate guix-installed Emacs packages with locally compiled Emacs pretest

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Is there such a thing as a curated list of unofficial, user-contributed
> packages for GuixSD?  (Anything that cannot be accepted in the official
> repository, such as development versions.)

No, there’s no such thing.

However, I would hope that development versions can easily be packaged,
either from the command-line using ‘--with-source’¹, or by defining a
package variant as in:

  (define emacs-git
    (package
      (inherit emacs)
      (source …)))

Thanks,
Ludo’.

¹ 
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html