In reply to@j4:matrix.org
It it's just runtime path of your emacs, can't you wrap your emacs and provide your own derivation ? (to programs.emacs or w/e else you use)

For example, these 2 won't load from path

      (use-package langtool
        :config
        (setq langtool-bin "${pkgs.languagetool}/bin/languagetool-commandline"))
      (setq parinfer-rust-library "${pkgs.kakounePlugins.parinfer-rust}/lib/libparinfer_rust.dylib")

For example, these 2 won't load from path so you have to set them

      (use-package langtool
        :config
        (setq langtool-bin "${pkgs.languagetool}/bin/languagetool-commandline"))
      (setq parinfer-rust-library "${pkgs.kakounePlugins.parinfer-rust}/lib/libparinfer_rust.dylib")

Latest nix-doom-emacs is broken for me. Can open emacs standalone, but the systemd service dumps a bunch of errors elated to not finding something called "annalist"
(I'm noticing I really need to pin my emacs setup now 😅)

Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/qgq41l3x4fbdx36qx7xxl4b1sn5sj70x-doom-modeline-workarounds.el (source)...
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/qgq41l3x4fbdx36qx7xxl4b1sn5sj70x-doom-modeline-workarounds.el (source)...done
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/j7qpa26x2g5wkv7d9rzvd4fwfvadz9ii-doom.d/config.el (source)...
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/j7qpa26x2g5wkv7d9rzvd4fwfvadz9ii-doom.d/config.el (source)...done
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/mfwnjy57ilyzqw56978i5amspw882614-doom-private/config.extra.el (source)...
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/mfwnjy57ilyzqw56978i5amspw882614-doom-private/config.extra.el (source)...done
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/ik1ni0r6lncx4fkac4grkzfm4nmr5vnp-doom-emacs/lisp/doom-start.el (source)...done
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/z2mzf110hlkq9ca7cbnm47s93sczg0mw-info-workarounds.el (source)...
Jun 23 21:09:23 plate bash[1525906]: Loading /nix/store/z2mzf110hlkq9ca7cbnm47s93sczg0mw-info-workarounds.el (source)...done
Jun 23 21:09:24 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:25 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:25 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:25 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:25 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:25 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:25 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:27 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:27 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:27 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:27 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:27 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:28 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:28 plate bash[1525906]: evil-collection error: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory annalist)
Jun 23 21:09:28 plate bash[1525906]: Starting Emacs daemon.
Jun 23 21:09:28 plate systemd[1765]: Started Emacs text editor.

ugh, I think I know what is going on with the evil-collection package 😬

So first, context.

evil-collection is a package to add evil keybindings to a bunch of other modes.

I added a change to the nix-doom-emacs repository to change the resolution of evil-collection to be an extra dependency (not going through the regular emacs' dependency resolution, but through nix machinery).

I did this as the regular emac's dependency resolution hangs on the latest version of macOS, specifically when compiling the evil-collection-speedbar.el file.

Now, this "worked" ok. Everything compiles and we are good right? Not so much.

I found out that when the extra dependencies compilation fail, it does not fail the whole build. After whacking a few moles making it compile, I noticed that the final installation does not include a modes subdirectory that the package needs. I think this is due to the nix machinery only taking .el files into consideration (not directories).

I'm trying to make evil-collection work in macOS, ideally I would be able to skip a specific extension from evil-collection (the one hanging the build).

I've been using doom by just having emacs in my home-manager config and putting the deps it needs on the path into my config as well, and that's been working fine for me. I'm doing this because my doom config uses git submodules and nix chokes on that when I try nix-doom-emacs' home-manager module. I'm satisfied with this for now, except for one thing: the all-the-icons-fonts have not been properly detected by emacs. Is there something I can do to force it to have access to those fonts and use them?

Hooray, more lojban evangelization. Anyway, I have tried ?submodules=1 in the url, however building my home-manager config with nix-doom-emacs and my config hangs, and when I inspect the process tree with htop I see that the process that's stuck is git cloning submodules.

I'm mostly just concerned with getting the fonts working though, because I don't really want to use nix-doom-emacs because I like to edit my config frequently while I'm using emacs, having to rebuild my home config each time sounds like a big annoyance.