From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30201"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 55655@debbugs.gnu.org To: Shitikanth Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 17:30:45 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFRj-0007gL-N1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 17:30:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59430 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFRi-0001EY-8T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:30:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFR6-00019e-16 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37685) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFR5-0005sJ-OE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFR5-0001eg-Dg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:30:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 15:30:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 55655 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 55655-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B55655.16535789626292 (code B ref 55655); Thu, 26 May 2022 15:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 55655) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 May 2022 15:29:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59815 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFQQ-0001dP-2x for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:56629) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nuFQO-0001dB-7y for 55655@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 4AC2580723; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id AC36D804AA; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:12 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1653578952; bh=r+MrmjIRXMnt/gf1oQbHIvDiBuSLGK8RBgK4LIZQPSE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=JiUN9Rq1zVbdgIT2PFkmj446uR+k0lTus0krT0NEuGu57/kcXE869BgzK9fJAp11c NswkH2RX876lAemmVJH6BCrIPBTvKlaw6e7rAO7wTYqqrApma6KaNLjAveXe67ECwK uAv7yyMYWjn7jkK3tzH7cVMpwB+BTWmpr0QzpFiMJHhKiJ0PsRBKRSCAA5opuytLQx 88caJ9tWAJAXZKDUNnpGZTBKio0plDwmvNSvRgTyyObXJjJVlIP9DhOFdgSTABRwFB BeC1d3p6/C2L+1wgz0GL9soyEYNqQQ4i5af+Yjwb7Ov+JHBY1P+ig8Ahe7B2C3d62D 5B6MgM5EMsuyA== Original-Received: from alfajor (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F3E3120BFB; Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Shitikanth's message of "Thu, 26 May 2022 16:37:48 +0530") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:233118 Archived-At: 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