John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2(a)nd.edu> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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 Great!  Now that I've installed apel, I can see the pictures
without
 any problem.  Should the text-modes entry in the package index say
 that it requires 'apel', in addition to ispell, fsf-compat, and
 xemacs-base? 
This hasn't been finished yet.  In short, no.  The explicit
dependencies that exist now are for bytecompilation not running.
 (If not, how can I tell, short of installing all of the packages or
 asking you people, where a particular function is defined?  Is there a
 tags file or anything like that for the packages?) 
Good question.  Some kind of a global symbol table can be made when
packages are built because building from the master source tree always 
has everything present.