Re: storing elpa packages in different folder

[Philip Kaludercic]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2021-03-26
>
> I'm tryng to make all the packages to be installed in the following
> directory 
>
> (setq user-emacs-directory "c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs.d/")  ;; in ~/.Emacs
>
> but Emacs doesn't put it there but in  C:\Users\siva\AppData\Roaming

Not sure about w64-mingw32, but perhaps you have to set this in the
early-init.el ((elisp) Init File) file, because package is automatically
loaded.

> what should I set to make it store where I want it?
>
> getenv APPDATA points to the Roaming folder
> getenv LOCALAPPDATA is C:\Users\siva\AppData\Local
>
>
> sivaram