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bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'
From: |
Visuwesh |
Subject: |
bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' |
Date: |
Fri, 27 May 2022 11:09:05 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
[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'.