Kevin> Is there a way of declaring the dependencies required by some package Kevin> or must it be trial and error? APA> The package interface can help you with this, although support is APA> rather low-level as of yet. APA> You may start with APA> M-x load-library RET package-get RET APA> ;;; Or evaluate the following line APA> (load-library "package-get") APA> ;;; Which package provides 'gnus? APA> (package-get-package-provider 'gnus) APA> (gnus "1.16") Thanks, that's very useful. It reminded me that awhile back I wrote, mb> (1) trying to run `xemacs -q', XEmacs bailed out looking for mb> pending-del. I went to the packages site, mb> ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/xemacs-21.0/packages/ mb> and after a few bad guesses, finally figured out it would be in mb> the pc-*pkg.tar.gz package. If this is required under `-q', mb> shouldn't it be in the base package (or is my local setup mb> somehow messed up even with `-q')? So, (package-get-package-provider 'pending-del) => (pc "1.10") and if I type `xemacs -q' I'm put into a Lisp Interaction mode with PenDel as a minor mode. If this PenDel minor mode is required even with `-q', shouldn't it be moved to xemacs-base (or the dependence removed)? -- -mb-