bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:26:52 +0100
> 
> The underlying problem is that Emacs uses user-emacs-directory and
> user-emacs-directory-warning before any user-customization is made
> effective.
> 
> Emacs not being aware of the user setting user-emacs-directory-warning
> is annoying and can be solved by delaying the warning, but the part
> about user-emacs-directory looks more concerning.

Yes, those are my concerns exactly.

More generally, Emacs supports only one method of pointing that
directory to another place, and that is via the -u command-line
option.  We could perhaps support other methods as well, like the one
the OP uses, but IMO it will require more changes than just delaying
the warning.