Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 >>>>> "Sean" == Sean MacLennan
<seanm(a)storm.ca> writes:
 
     Sean> Who provides term? I need it to compile browse-url.el from
     Sean> the mail-lib package. (eval-when-compile (require 'term))
 
     Sean> Is there any way to find out who provides a package if I do
     Sean> not have all the packages installed?
 
 In theory package-get-base.el provides this information.  However, I
 don't see how to get it from the package-user-interface. 
M-x package-get-package-provider , in theory (but not in this case,
because of the problem below).
 A second problem is that although many packages list many provided
 symbols, eterm only lists 'eterm.  This may be a bug? 
I think so, since term.el does (provide 'term), that should be listed
in the package index.
Robert
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