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29.1; gnus-home-directory

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>,
 Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com>, 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66501: 29.1; gnus-home-directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:24:38 +0200

On Okt 12 2023, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> 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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