From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Shitikanth <shitikanth1@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 55655@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 11:09:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilprfsau.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjXJSQgmrskzZKJz9wcCT-oTbzfDMsJonrXaZx7us95H0katQ@mail.gmail.com> (Shitikanth's message of "Fri, 27 May 2022 10:40:53 +0530")
[வெள்ளி மே 27, 2022] Shitikanth wrote:
>>Could you give some more details about the use case that actually
> affects you
>
> I just have a couple of different configs and use them with
> "emacs -Q --load $config_dir/init.el" and set the user-emacs-directory
> early in "$config_dir/init.el". This was also the easiest way to try out
> other people's configs without disturbing your own.
>
> I guess I was always aware that this was an abuse of the init system,
> so if this is an intended change, you can close the bug report.
>
FWIW, Emacs 29 added a --init-directory flag for these purposes. Here's
the NEWS entry of the change,
** Emacs now supports setting 'user-emacs-directory' via '--init-directory'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-27 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-26 11:07 bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' Shitikanth
2022-05-26 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-26 13:19 ` Shitikanth
2022-05-26 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-26 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-27 5:10 ` Shitikanth
2022-05-27 5:39 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-05-27 6:03 ` Shitikanth
2023-09-13 1:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-05-27 12:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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