packages with binaries

I'm trying to update the VM package, and as this is my first ever interaction with the package system, it's a bit daunting. First question: what am I supposed to do with auxiliary programs (qp-decode, base64-decode etc) that VM likes to have? Since XEmacs has built-in base64 functions, I guess the base64 programs are superfluous anyway; and perhaps qp-*code are superfluous because any qp-encoded message part is likely to be small anyway. But if I did want them, what would I do with them? Secondly, is there a way to check out the package infrastructure without getting the whole of the package sources? (This is also my first interaction with Mercurial, since these days every project uses a different VCS...) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta