Ben> Michael, why are you making this so hard? *if* you're running in Ben> place, and *if* you can't find the packages, and *if* there's a Ben> valid tree parallel to the root, then use it. In your case, if Ben> the tree found is not a valid package hierarchy, then it should Ben> be ignored. OK guys, I give up. Apparently both sides don't like what I do. Ben, please finally get it into your head that the issues surrounding path searching are *hard*, and there are very few changes that you can make which won't screw some of the users. At least give someone else the benefit of the expertise here, come by the hard way. As for the *if*: I've gotten bashed plenty for the stat count path searching incurs. This would bump it up forther. Jeez ... -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla