Re: storing elpa packages in different folder

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 18:30:52 +0530
> User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com
> 
> On Mon, May 09 2022,Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
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> > The easiest way is to set the HOME environment variable to point to
> > c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs.d/.  Do this system-wide (via the Properties
> > of your computer), and your problem will be solved.
> >
> 
> Thanks for this.  There's a few custom cmd/powershell scripts that
> seem to set HOME/read HOME that may stop working if I change it
> system-wide.  

My advice is to adapt those other scripts as well.  Setting HOME
outside of Emacs (and any other program) is the best way of doing such
customizations; anything else comes with caveats that will bite you
some day.