storing elpa packages in different folder

storing elpa packages in different folder

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

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

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
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Re: storing elpa packages in different folder

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 00:30:05 +0530
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 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

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.

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

Re: storing elpa packages in different folder

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Mon, May 09 2022,Eli Zaretskii wrote:


[snipped 17 lines]

>
> 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.  

sivaram
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Re: storing elpa packages in different folder

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Mon, May 09 2022,Philip Kaludercic wrote:


[snipped 11 lines]

> 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.

from the info manual, I see this entry

Emacs looks for your init file using the filenames ‘~/.emacs.el’,
‘~/.emacs’, or ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ in that order; 

can you explain a little more of what you're suggesting please?



sivaram
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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:
> 
> 
> [snipped 17 lines]
> 
> >
> > 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.