GNU bug report logs - #583
Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?

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Message #83 received at 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:38:08 +0300

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:01 -0700
> Cc: 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Changing user-emacs-directory works coherently only if it's done very early in 
> startup (which is all that Bug#15539 was asking for).

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?

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.

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