Subject: bug#66501: 29.1; gnus-home-directory

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:24:38 +0200

On Okt 12 2023, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> If that isn't sufficient, this is what I had to do in gnus-mock to make
>> sure absolutely all Gnus-related everything went in the same directory:
>>
>> (setq some-directory "~/.config/emacs/gnus"
>>       gnus-home-directory some-directory
>>       gnus-directory (expand-file-name "News/" some-directory)
>>       message-directory some-directory
>>       gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name ".newsrc" some-directory)
>>       gnus-init-file (expand-file-name ".gnus.el" some-directory)
>>       nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "drafts/" some-directory)
>>       gnus-agent-directory (expand-file-name "agent/" some-directory))
>
> Is it really supposed to be this hard to customize?

No.  Just setting gnus-home-directory is enough (though it needs to be
set before loading gnus).

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