Fighting with packages!

Kevin> 2. The "Packages" node in info be expanded to provide information on Kevin> how to find and install binary packages. Kevin> I'm willing to contribute to the latter and possibly the former, once Kevin> I figure out how it's really supposed to work. I've done it by manually ftp'ing all of the packages from the binary-packages directory, then: gtar -zxf xemacs-21.0-b48.tar.gz gtar -zxf xemacs-21.0-b48-info.tar.gz gtar -zxf xemacs-21.0-b48-elc.tar.gz cd xemacs-21.0-b48 mkdir packages cd packages foreach i (../../packages/*.tar.gz) gtar -zxf $i end ./configure ... make make install cd /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.0 gtar -cf - -C ~/xemacs-21.0-b48 packages | gtar -xf - Unfortunately, 'make install' doesn't move the install packages from the source directry to the destination directory, hence the last few lines. I also had the same difficulties and figured it out by trial and error. The documentation provided few clues in getting it working. The method I use above probably doesn't allow package-get-update* to work since I didn't use package-get to install them but I couldn't quite get that working. I do like the idea of packages. I would like it even better if it provided a way to remove a package. Currently, you need to know exactly which info/ and etc/ files get installed by the package to actually remove it. The lisp/ directory at least has subdirectories for each of the packages.