Some oddies in the auctex (11.55) installation

Hello This is an issue which concerns both the auctex developement team and the xemacs team, hence my double posting. The default behaviour for a auctex installation using xemacs that is ./configure --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs has the result, that the files, which are generated by the make process, will be installed in infodir = ${packagedir}/info lispdir = ${packagedir}/lisp packagedir = /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages auctexdir= ${lispdir}/auctex I consider such a choice as *bad*. First it will need root privileges, second it will install in the directory where the _official_ xemacs pkg sits. So I suggest that the default value are: either the pkg directory is packagedir = /usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages Which still would need root privileges or the value is packagedir = ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages. It is true that the INSTALLATION file says something about how to set the packagedir, that is to run ./configure --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs --with-packagedir=/DIR but in any case, the *default* behaviour should not be the one mention above. I suggest if ./configure --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs is executed, a message pops up saying, "you did not specify neither the packagedir nor the lispdir option". Besides the package generated this way *does not* include a MANIFEST file, so uninstall could be a little tricky, recall that the xemacs are installed according to the structure /lisp/packagename /man/packagename But not /packename/lisp /packename/man In the letter deleting the packagename directory would delete the installed files, in the former you have to go directory by directory. So that is where a MANIFEST file comes in handy (posted a while ago I simple function to delete the content of a 3rd party package by reading the MANIFEST file) I would appreciate any comments of the Xemacs development team on this issue. Thanks Uwe Brauer