Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw(a)CNRI.Reston.Va.US> writes:
I know next to nothing about how the new package stuff works, but
even
so, it was pretty painless for me get the packages I wanted installed
and working with XEmacs 21. It worked very well in my strange
/depot/gnu installation :-) Kudos to all!
Cool!
...
2. Now that I've got all the packages installed, what tools are
available for me to uninstall packages (see below), get updates
from the net (perhaps with signature verification), etc.
Formal uninstallation support is lacking at present. It hasn't been
forgotten and there will be some support by release time. One of the
Golden Rules of packages is that `leaf' regular packages (like
Supercite) may have all their installed files deleted without harm.
Individual .el files in single-file packages may be deleted without
harm (like lazy-lock.el in the edit-utils package).
3. I had a problem with the skk package. It seems I downloaded and
installed that but built XEmacs w/o MULE
There's a naming convention to allow Mule packages to coexist with
non-Mule XEmacs builds. Put your non-Mule packages in
`xemacs-packages' and your Mule packages in `mule-packages'. Any
packages in a `mule-packages' hierarchy are left untouched in a
non-Mule XEmacs.