RE: FW: [External] : Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

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Jan 3, 2022, 10:02 by stefankangas@gmail.com:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> On Sun 02 Jan 2022 at 05:14pm -05, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>>
>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Customize should not write to your init file ...  That's a bad Emacs
>>>> design choice, IMO.  It especially should not be the default behavior.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1, FWIW.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, then where should it write to?
>>
>
> IMO, something like
>
> (setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file "custom-file.el"))
>

I'd prefer the current behavior TBH, because the real issue is not where it is
written, it is when it's read. Currently it is easy to place 
custom-set-variables
where you want either inside init file or to place it into another file.  
Timing is
important, because Customize also has problems with autoloads, and who
knows what else.