Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > > Of course, another way to fix this is to actually fix the original > problem where the wrong directory (i.e. `~$USER/.emacs.d` instead of > `$HOME/.emacs.d`) is chosen. This original problem affects other > circumstances where Emacs will write to the `.emacs.d` directory so it > would be good to fix it more generally. >
I think we probably want both, at least in Debian. Even if that is fixed, emacs would then write into some user's (possibly root's) home directory during package installation. That seems like bug to me. d
