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28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' |
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Thu, 26 May 2022 16:37:48 +0530 |
Until emacs 27.2, package.el used to correctly pick `package-user-dir'
based on the value of `user-emacs-directory', but it now seems to ignore
it and defaults to "~/.emacs.d/elpa".
Demo:
(setq user-emacs-directory "/tmp")
(require 'package)
(message "%s" package-user-dir)
Starting with "emacs -Q" this would output "~/.emacs.d/elpa".
Expected output: "/tmp/elpa" (as in emacs 27.2).
Based on git bisect, the offending commit seems to be 9973019764.
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Re: bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' |
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Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:40:53 -0700 |
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:
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>> [வெள்ளி மே 27, 2022] Shitikanth wrote:
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>> >>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,
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>> ** Emacs now supports setting 'user-emacs-directory' via
>> '--init-directory'.
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