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Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade

From Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade
Date 2022-08-24 14:00 +0200
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> To be clear, $HOME was pointing correctly at /root.  Emacs ignored $HOME
> and instead created $USER/.emacs.d/eln-cache, which was surprising.  (su
> without - still changes $HOME but not $USER.)

Oh, yes, that's a behavior we have in Emacs which I also find horrible
(and to add insult to injury it takes extra work to implement it; it's
only done when running as root).

I encourage you to file this as a bug.


        Stefan

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Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-08-19 20:50 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-22 01:40 +0200
    Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> - 2022-08-22 11:30 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> - 2022-08-22 21:30 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> - 2022-08-23 06:30 +0200
    Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-08-23 06:50 +0200
      Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> - 2022-08-23 07:10 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> - 2022-08-23 11:10 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-23 16:40 +0200
    Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> - 2022-08-24 04:00 +0200
      Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-24 04:10 +0200
        Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-08-24 05:10 +0200
          Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-24 14:00 +0200
          Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> - 2022-09-12 00:20 +0200
            Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-09-12 03:40 +0200
              Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> - 2022-09-13 02:10 +0200

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