user-init-directory set to "/.xemacs/" instead of "~/.xemacs/"

hi, not sure this is the place, but forgive me, i looked through the archive on 'user-init-directory' and didn't find anything about it. using XEmacs 21.1 from debian. i'm using package-get to update my packages, and each time, i'm prompted to update the package list in a subdir of "/.xemacs", now i don't know how many of you have a .xemacs dir in the root dir but i suspect not many. in startup.el, it is set to : (defconst user-init-directory "/.xemacs/" "Directory where user-installed packages may go.") and i would therefore assume that code using this variable would prepend the missing '~' but not many packages use this variable in elisp, just where-was-i-db and package-get it seems. anyways, i can set it for myself, but i think that either it should be a default to put the '~' or code using it should prepend it ? after all it is very unlikely to have anything located in "/.xemacs/" right ? hope this was the right place to ask that? -- # Stef Epardaud, # There is no limit to the power of computing ... # Java Defeater # ... except men maybe ? # Rotterdam # Lunatech Research, # NETHERLANDS # soon we will drop the searching for the finding... # #