Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:44:59 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:40 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Although in hindsight an environment variable doesn't seem like the way
> to go.

Actually, I think it does, because otherwise the user-defined value
will be noticed too late, after defcustom's that depend on it were
already recomputed.