Emacs not loading ~/.config/emacs/init.el when first launched inside a distrobox container

Hi, I want to run emacs inside a development container (as I'm using Fedora Silverblue), but I'm having a weird issue: My config files are all in \~/.config/emacs/, but just after the launch of the container (distrobox-enter), emacs creates \~/.emacs and \~/.emacs.d and ignores the config folder. If I stop emacs, delete \~/.emacs and \~/.emacs.d and restart emacs, my init.el in \~/.config/emacs/ is considered and emacs starts configured the proper way. For now I think I will just move my config folder, but if you think this is an issue I might need to report on the mailing list, or if you can help me investigate a bit more, feel free to help me!

Ok, it seems that even .emacs.d is not taken into account and .emacs is created when first running emacs

After a bit more digging, the issue seems to come from distrobox, I'll try to ask on their bug tracker

If you don't mind me asking, what would be your planned workflow with Emacs and Silverblue?

Emacs and every software I need for development inside a container, and a .desktop file to launch it from the desktop

So the advantage of that would be to seperate development environment from the OS, right?

I think in emacs you can view the load path. perhaps a file exists somewhere in that path already. if it exists, like ~/.emacs, the others arent loaded also run `echo "$XDG_CONFIG_DIR"` if it is not `<value of $HOME>/.config` that might be why it isnt loaded

For anyone using this post in the future, it is now fixed by the dev of distrobox: [https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/458](https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/458) It was caused by the fact that distrobox was copying content of /etc/skel (which contained a .emacs file) to the home directory if the files were not there