Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> writes: > Possibly, but I'd assumed the installation processs should expect a > "normal" root environment, and if so, "su" without the dash wouldn't > qualify. Otherwise, random user .bashrc changes (that su doesn't reset) > could affect the install.
For what it's worth, this is the first package that I recall having trouble with during installation, and I've been using Debian for quite a while. :) That doesn't mean you're wrong -- you've got a good point and I should get in the habit of using -. But I do wonder if there's a bug or at least some surprising behavior here in Emacs. Blindly using USER when HOME is set correctly is pretty unusual (and, for whatever it's worth, contrary to the BaseDir specification, not that Emacs is currently following that). Generally HOME should override USER when used to locate the current user's home directory. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
