From 600a1133903eb2f7d3b7d954467dcee0b2d0277b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:51:33 -0300
Subject: proposed fix for #985459

In order to prevent packages installed by root within emacs from
interfering with the installation process, set to package-user-dir to
a directory that does not exist. Place that within /usr/lib/dh-elpa to
minimize the chance that someone creates it.
---
 helper/install | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/helper/install b/helper/install
index 1a2eb8a..e418c7e 100755
--- a/helper/install
+++ b/helper/install
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ echo install/${ELPA_DIR}: byte-compiling for ${FLAVOR}
 (cd ${elc_dir}
  set +e
  ${FLAVOR} --quick --batch -l package \
+           --eval "(setq package-user-dir \"/usr/lib/dh-elpa/nonexistent\")" \
            --eval "(add-to-list 'package-directory-list \"$src_dir\")" \
            -f package-initialize -f batch-byte-compile *.el > Install.log 2>&1
  if test $? -ne 0
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