emacs-guix missing from package-activated-list

Hi,

I've been looking into managing my Emacs packages with Guix. I found that the `emacs-guix` package doesn't seem to show up in the `package-activated-list`, even though its dependencies do, which seems like a bug. Here's an illustration:

```

philip@avalon:/tmp/emacs-bug$ guix describe --format=channels

(list (channel

(name 'guix)

(url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")

(branch "master")

(commit

"e069de452a2c923868f5137421b4b6349c38d754")

(introduction

(make-channel-introduction

"9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"

(openpgp-fingerprint

"BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))))

philip@avalon:/tmp/emacs-bug$ cat demo.el

(require 'package)

(package-initialize)

(print package-activated-list)

philip@avalon:/tmp/emacs-bug$ guix shell --pure --container emacs emacs-guix -- emacs --script demo.el

Loading /gnu/store/7vpfhr5fzvyvnh62lj17b97q7vr0svjj-emacs-guix-0.5.2-5.c9aef52/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix-0.5.2-5.c9aef52/guix-autoloads.el (source)...

Loading /gnu/store/4hnp17pjbvi3xirk9ygxzv5hb24c9ghk-emacs-bui-1.2.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/bui-1.2.1/bui-autoloads...

Loading /gnu/store/gx62xcfnn7dw1ib88gzbvgbz255vrd9i-emacs-dash-2.19.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/dash-2.19.1/dash-autoloads...

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Loading /gnu/store/sic558dq3rlcx6d0f1h7pq6cq1mkliaz-emacs-geiser-0.23.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/geiser-0.23.2/geiser-autoloads...

Loading /gnu/store/qc3b61ygmgpnhssy4yvk4a66xcd81kss-emacs-project-0.8.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/project-0.8.1/project-autoloads...

Loading /gnu/store/6al6nhnkxkgznh7fla8rsyis8cxywz6l-emacs-xref-1.4.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/xref-1.4.1/xref-autoloads...

Loading /gnu/store/g2b2bagb3p1vw57kxgry7pnh32grl4d0-emacs-transient-0.3.7/share/emacs/site-lisp/transient-0.3.7/transient-autoloads...

Loading /gnu/store/dacdgzvhn1n4j8dcac6d67vnc9fnlmym-emacs-geiser-guile-0.23.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/geiser-guile-0.23.2/geiser-guile-autoloads...

Loading /gnu/store/l7qm8v9pnpadllxyr6g348a4knfj4x42-emacs-magit-popup-2.13.3/share/emacs/site-lisp/magit-popup-2.13.3/magit-popup-autoloads...

(bui edit-indirect xref geiser-guile geiser magit-popup dash)

```

Am Sonntag, dem 03.07.2022 um 21:33 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:

This might be related to the fact that Emacs doesn't see guix as a

package. I think the recipe might be missing the -pkg.el

autogeneration we added to emacs-build-system.

Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> writes:

We could workaround the problem using the ensure-package-description of

the emacs-build-system phase, but since the emacs-guix package uses the

gnu-build-system, we'd also need to manually install the -pkg.el file

generated by the phase.

Since we maintain the package in Savannah, it seems it'd be more elegant

to have an emacs-guix-pkg.el file templated by the GNU build system and

installed by it.

--

Thanks,

Maxim

Am Dienstag, dem 03.10.2023 um 23:12 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:

Indeed, maintaining a proper package description upstream is the

preferable option.

Cheers