Re: Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the XEmacs hierarchy

APA> This desktop shortcut used to work on my Windows 2000 system: Do you know where it broke? Could this patch (shortly after the release of 21.5.10) have done it? 2003-01-13 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * packages.el: * find-paths.el: Revert this change 2000-04-01 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * packages.el (packages-find-package-directories): Added support for external package hierarchies with in-place installations. * find-paths.el (paths-root-in-place-p): Added. (paths-find-emacs-directory): Added support for external directories with in-place installations. (paths-find-site-directory): Ditto. Maybe try backing it out: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200301/msg00085.html -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.