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frederik@ofb.net writes:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:28:27PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> 
>> I tested with:
>> 
>> /tmp/h1/.emacs:
>>     (setenv "HOME" "/tmp/h2/")
>>     (setq savehist-file "/tmp/h1/.emacs-history")
>>     (load "~/.emacs")
>>     (setenv "HOME" "/tmp/h1/")
>> 
>> /tmp/h2/.emacs:
>>     (setq foo 99)
>> 
>> 
>> HOME=/tmp/h1 emacs-25.1
>> M-x package-initialize
>
> You don't think my problem is common!? :) Well I'm not sure how other
> people edit files as root,

Probably with TRAMP: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode#toc20

> Thank you (indeed) for taking the time to trim down my problem to a
> minimal test case. If we make it a little less minimal:
>
> /tmp/h2/.emacs:
>     (setq foo 99)
>     (package-initialize)
>
> then I find it reproduces the problem:

AFAICT, this is essentially the problem described in #24643 and should be
fixed by the suggestion there: