I was just thinking, maybe it makes sense to reorganize the package hierarchy with separate autoloads and custom loads directories at the top level. This would * make it easy to have the two sounds packages have autoloads and be identified as present by the package system without adding extra lisp directories with just autoloads. * should reduce the number of directories to stat searching for autoloads and custom loads during startup. * make it easy to put all your lisp in a single directory (the same-named auto-autoloads.el and custom-load.el files currently clash and would need to be renamed). * and separate the non user-loaded .el files from the lisp/<package> directories where it doesn't seem to belong. Something like $PACKAGES/ etc info lib-src lisp/<package>/foo.el man pkginfo auto-autoloads/<package>.el custom-load/<package>.el Does this make any sense?