Subject: bug#45857: 28.0.50; Not possible to set package-user-dir in early-init.el

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:41:07 -0500

forcemerge 45857 30994
thanks

>> the package-user-dir defcustom gets the custom-initialize-delay
>> intializer.  At least for me, this overrides any setting of
>> package-user-dir that is done in early-init.el.
> Oh, I see you're right, and I think this issue is wider than
> `package-user-dir` since it affects all the other vars that use
> `custom-initialize-delay`.

And I see that this is actually a known problem: bug#30994

        Stefan