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> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@centralesupelec.fr>
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:03:45 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
>  ..an app to be really portable cannot write the host machine, so .emacs.d should go on the device where
>  the portable app is installed. 
> 
> And the more Windows compliant the app will be, the less portable it will become.

I think you are talking about a different sense of "portable" than the
one used in this thread.  "Portable" here means it can be carried on
an external storage device, and will work when connected to a random
machine.