bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'

[Stefan Kangas]

Shitikanth <shitikanth1@gmail.com> writes:

> Great news! That's exactly what I needed
>
> Thanks for pointing that out!

Great.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.

> On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 11:09, Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [வெள்ளி மே 27, 2022] Shitikanth wrote:
>>
>> >>Could you give some more details about the use case that actually
>> > affects you
>> >
>> > I just have a couple of different configs and use them with
>> > "emacs -Q --load $config_dir/init.el" and set the user-emacs-directory
>> > early in "$config_dir/init.el". This was also the easiest way to try out
>> > other people's configs without disturbing your own.
>> >
>> > I guess I was always aware that this was an abuse of the init system,
>> > so if this is an intended change, you can close the bug report.
>> >
>>
>> FWIW, Emacs 29 added a --init-directory flag for these purposes.  Here's
>> the NEWS entry of the change,
>>
>>     ** Emacs now supports setting 'user-emacs-directory' via 
>> '--init-directory'.