At 02:42 AM 5/14/98 -0700, you wrote: I think it should always be auto-generated though - its intimately tied to package-get-base.el or are you talking about putting package-get-base.el and package-get.el in a package as well? If package-get-base.el and package-get.el are in the core (which they are currently and which I like) then you could just generate package-get-custom.el on the fly when a user tries to customize packages. I still am confused though. What process do you envisage a user or builder going through. To address changed. :) andy