Invert Profile Control

[psionic-k]

This is not a straightforward issue, but it would define the useful output of this project.

Use lisp to drive the creation of a profile and give emacs its own profile rather than using nix to drive the creation of a profile that installs emacs and some of its configurations

[psionic-k]

This is hard. Yakspkgs looks viable. The problem I run into is the impedance between generating Nix profiles, which is batch, and installing Emacs packages with dependencies, which is not batch.

In the end, if we want to install Emacs with dependencies, a bootstrap similar to Elpaca and Straight or no-littering, things done early in init, will be necessary to get a profile baked and made active before packages begin loading. Those packages then require small amounts of pre-configuration to ensure that they don't go try to load system libraries.

The idea of maintaining a dynamic profile and baking it into a persistent and transferable profile may be back in view.