Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:29:23 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:40:53 -0400
> 
> IMO the Emacs 26.3 behaviour is correct, and Emacs should not be
> creating HOME if it does not exist.

I'm not sure I agree with you.  What do other programs do in this
situation?  And if we don't create ~/.emacs.d, how can we save user's
customizations?

> One may want to set a non-existent HOME eg for testing.

That might mean we need to find other ways of isolating tests from
user customizations.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this?