Is it supposed to require backwards?

[lethjakman]

I was having issues with my shell not including hg which is a requirement for some of the packages I wanted to install (evil). I think it's because I use zsh instead of bash and all of my pathing isn't in the normal bashrc because of that. The way I had to resolve this was by using exec-path-from-shell. I originally attempted to get it working like this

(setq
 el-get-sources '(
   (:name exec-path-from-shell
      :after (progn
             (when (memq window-system '(mac ns))
               (exec-path-from-shell-initialize))
        (message "hello")
   ))
   (:name ace-jump-mode)
   (:name evil
      :after (progn
           (setq evil-want-C-u-scroll t) ; must appear before require 'evil
           (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w") ; Make _ a part of the search word
           (evil-set-initial-state 'git-commit-mode 'insert)
           (evil-mode 1)
           )
  )
   )
 )

This however changed nothing. In order to get this package working I had to move the exec-path-from-shell to the end of the script like so:

(setq
 el-get-sources '(
   (:name ace-jump-mode)
   (:name evil
      :after (progn
           (setq evil-want-C-u-scroll t) ; must appear before require 'evil
           (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w") ; Make _ a part of the search word
           (evil-set-initial-state 'git-commit-mode 'insert)
           (evil-mode 1)
           )
   )
   (:name exec-path-from-shell
      :after (progn
             (when (memq window-system '(mac ns))
               (exec-path-from-shell-initialize))
        (message "hello")
   ))
   )
 )

Is this intenttional for some reason? Also, is there a better way to do this to make sure requirements get executed first?

[npostavs]

The order of el-get-sources doesn't determine anything by itself. El-get has :depends but that is for runtime dependency, and what you're talking about is install/build time.

If you're doing some like (el-get 'sync (mapcar 'el-get-source-name el-get-sources)), then I think explicitly installing exec-path-from-shell first should do the trick:

(el-get 'sync 'exec-path-from-shell)
(el-get 'sync (remove "exec-path-from-shell" (mapcar #'el-get-source-name el-get-sources)))

[lethjakman]

Why are you removing exec-path-from-shell? Won't that mean it has to reinstall on every start up?

[npostavs]

No, it just avoids initializing it twice. Reinstall only happens if you explictly el-get-reinstall or el-get-remove a package.

With the el-get-sources you posted, the 2 lines I posted are basically the same as doing

(el-get 'sync 'exec-path-from-shell) ; first exec-path-from-shell
(el-get 'sync (list "ace-jump-mode" "evil")) ; then the rest