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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? |
Date: | Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:01 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 |
Glenn Morris wrote:
IMO this means one should allow a user-defined user-emacs-directory, which means un-wontfix'ing https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539 .
Thanks for mentioning that. I followed up in that bug report, here: https://bugs.gnu.org/15539#109By the way, making user-emacs-directory a variable instead of a constant has its downsides, because if a user changes user-emacs-directory, then a lot of other variables will keep their old values derived from the previous value of user-emacs-directory, leading to a confusing mish-mosh of old and new behavior. Changing user-emacs-directory works coherently only if it's done very early in startup (which is all that Bug#15539 was asking for).
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