[core] Fix some user-specific files to live in user-emacs-directory #16996
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spacemacs-start-directory may in general be shared among multiple users. Packages for individual users should be installed into user-emacs-directory instead, the same overall directory where the package rollbacks are located anyway. If site admins want to distribute packages with a shared copy of Spacemacs, they should arrange to have packages installed in a directory listed by package-directory-list instead.
If multiple users share the same Spacemacs installation, it makes more sense to put the private/ directory under the user's individual ~/.emacs.d/ rather than in the shared clone.
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spacemacs-start-directorymay be a shared, read-only folder if siteadministrators decide to distribute a copy of Spacemacs with Emacs.
However, user-specific files like ELPA packages and private snippets
should be stored in
user-emacs-directoryin that case.(The set of installed ELPA packages depends on the user's
dotspacemacs, and the private snippets are obviously user-specific.
Site administrators can set up shared snippets in some other location.)