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28.0.50; Not possible to set package-user-dir in early-init.el

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 45857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45857: 28.0.50; Not possible to set package-user-dir in early-init.el
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:44:14 -0500

> I am still getting start up package.el oddities. While I can reset
> package-user-dir in early-init.el now and it is correct when init.el
> starts up, my package-initialize is raising an error from auctex in my
> case.
>
>     Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/phillord/.emacs.d/init.el’:
>
>     File is missing: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, tex-site
>
>
> package-user-dir looks right
>
>     package-user-dir is a variable defined in ‘package.el’.
>     Its value is "~/.emacs.d/elpa/28.0"
>     Original value was "~/.emacs.d/elpa"
>
> but load-path is not correct, having been set up for the default
> location of package-user-dir
>
>
> load-path is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
> Its value is
> ("/home/phillord/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.0.3"
> "/home/phillord/.emacs.d/elpa/cider-1.0.0"
> "/home/phillord/.emacs.d/elpa/clojure-mode-5.12.0"

Does /home/phillord/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.0.3/ exist?
How 'bout /home/phillord/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.0.3/tex-site.el ?
How 'bout /home/phillord/.emacs.d/elpa/28.0/auctex-13.0.3/ ?


        Stefan

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