Comments on 21.0 "Somali"

I just managed to start 21.0 without getting any errors from my .emacs. I fully appreciate the idea of breaking out the packages from XEmacs, but there has got to be a better way of figuring out the dependencies for each package. I spent over an hour trying to get through the startup, scanning the roadmaps for the file needed and then getting the package and installing it. And I have every reason to believe that I have many more to go that won't hit me until I enter some command. Is there a way of declaring the dependencies required by some package or must it be trial and error? Some specifics: ps-print.el seems to be missing. It's not in any roadmap file. Likewise term.el seems MIA. And Gnus calls sort-subr which is not found. The jka-compr package also seems to be missing. I suspect that I'll eventually find all of them, but there needs to be a better way of helping the user through this! On the other hand, tpu-edt seems happy in 21.0 once you get all of the packages it calls. I have only a single bug to track down so far. Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634