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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:40:21 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We should document what that "very early" means in practice.  Does it
> mean in the early-init file? or can this be done reliably in the
> normal init file as well?

Sorry, I don't know. That's why I didn't document it.

> The problem here is that some defcustom's refer to
> user-emacs-directory, and so changing the value of
> user-emacs-directory after those defcustoms were computed during
> startup will leave those defcustoms pointing at the old place.

Yes, it's quite a mess.