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.