first, this is amazingly cool, thanks, Darryl! unfortunately there is a checksum mismatch and it's not totally working, but it looks excellent. a couple suggestions for enhancements: * it'd be nice to force the user to specify a package-get-base.el file when started (with read-file-name) and give them a suitable default (efs path to xemacs,org). * also make them specify where to install the packages. package-get has an install-dir argument. don't surprise me... * it'd be nice to allow the user to hide "up-to-date" packages. * it'd be nice to sort the list by category: out-of-date/up-to-date/not-installed. * it'd be nice if the dependencies were handled directly by your interface rather than via package-get-all so the user could be walked thru that process. i really don't like when the code tries to be too smart and install stuff i didn't explicitly OK. greg