Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr&gt; writes: I am not partial to them either. But 1. It is too late now. These ARE the advertised paths. 2. They are very convenient in the case of SUMO. It is very clear which packages are your own and which can be "rm -rf"ed if you are not running MULE. 3. I have no idea what happens when you load a true MULE package into a latin-1 XEmacs (the auto-autoloads file could well have mule stuff in it) but as SUMO contains ALL package it nice to have them automatically avoided by a latin1 XEmacs. I think it looks in packages last, so it will find the leim package in SUMO. Moreover it will complain loudly that you have two autoload files for leim. Jan