GNU bug report logs - #55655
28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Shitikanth <shitikanth1 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 11:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Shitikanth <shitikanth1 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 16:37:48 +0530

Until emacs 27.2, package.el used to correctly pick `package-user-dir'
based on the value of `user-emacs-directory', but it now seems to ignore
it and defaults to "~/.emacs.d/elpa".

Demo:
    (setq user-emacs-directory "/tmp")
    (require 'package)
    (message "%s" package-user-dir)

Starting with "emacs -Q" this would output "~/.emacs.d/elpa".
Expected output: "/tmp/elpa" (as in emacs 27.2).

Based on git bisect, the offending commit seems to be 9973019764.
This bug report was last modified 1 year and 250 days ago.

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