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bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' |
Date: |
Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:12 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Shitikanth [2022-05-26 16:37:48] wrote:
> 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).
That expectation is wrong, sadly, because it assumes that the
initialization of `package-user-dir` takes place during (require
'package), which is not the case because that variable is now
initialized earlier.
I understand it's a change, but it might be difficult to make this
specific recipe work the way you want without breaking other use-cases.
Could you give some more details about the use case that actually
affects you (I hope it's slightly different from the simplified recipe
shown above)?
Stefan