Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages

[Stefan Monnier]

> From Stefan's comment it sounds as if I should pull everything out of
> .emacs.d except init and elpa. But it's convenient for me to have emacs in
> its own contained world on my computer. Is there a risk of breaking
> something with this approach?

The problem with adding ~/.emacs.d to your load-path is one
of namespace.  E.g. Gnus expects ~/.emacs.d/gnus.el to be the user's
Gnus config.  So if you have such a file and add ~/.emacs.d to your
load-path, you'll have a conflict where (load "gnus") will load your
Gnus config file rather then loading Gnus proper.

You can use ~/.emacs.d/<subdir> instead.  But there's (so far) no
officially blessed <subdir> that we recommend.


        Stefan