This seems to be fixed with the latest round of binary packages. Maybe due to _pkg.el coming back, I'm not certain.. I also have applied both Jan's "[Urgent 21.0] package-remove cleanup & bugfix" patch and the following three from me: Subject: [patch] INSTALL-DIR argument for package-get-all Subject: [patch] package-ui.el - better handling of required packages Subject: [patch] bugfix package-admin-rmtree though it's not clear any of those address your problem. greg Oscar> Oscar> When I install a package via the package-ui interface, the package is listed as Oscar> "not installed" in the package listing. If I launch a new XEmacs the newly Oscar> installed package appears correctly. This seems to be due to the fact that the Oscar> package loading functions do not update the `packages-package-list' variable Oscar> while the package removal functions probably do. Oscar> Oscar> I can not claim this is really a bug because my current installation is not Oscar> very clean and I probably need to reinstall all the package stuff from scratch Oscar> but before I do so, has anybody noticed the same problem ? (sorry if I missed Oscar> sg on the list, I am back from a 2 weeks vacation) Oscar> Oscar> Oscar Oscar>