This looks like OK to me, but I don't put packages under .xemacs. Comments? - vin From: Jorma Laaksonen <jorma.laaksonen(a)hut.fi&gt; Subject: Why packages cannot be deleted from user's own subdirectory? Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Cc: steve(a)altair.xemacs.org Date: 25 Sep 2000 14:04:15 +0300 Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Hi! I noticed that removing packages installed under my ~/.xemacs/packages is not possible from *Packages* buffer in xemacs 21.1. This seems to be related to function package-admin-get-install-dir of package-admin.el. This small patch --- /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.4/lisp/package-admin.el Mon Feb 15 18:41:29 1999 +++ /my/homedir/tmp/package-admin.el Mon Sep 25 13:57:29 2000 ＠＠ -165,13 +165,13 ＠＠ (featurep package-feature) (setq autoload-dir (feature-file package-feature)) (setq autoload-dir (file-name-directory autoload-dir)) - (member autoload-dir late-package-load-path)) + (member autoload-dir (append early-package-load-path late-package-load-path))) ;; Find the corresonding entry in late-package (setq pkg-dir (car-safe (member-if (lambda (h) (string-match (concat "^" (regexp-quote h)) autoload-dir)) - late-packages)))) + (append (cdr early-packages) late-packages))))) (if pkg-dir pkg-dir ;; Ok we need to guess seems to solve the problem, but is perhaps not portable. I have (custom-set-variables '(pui-package-install-dest-dir "~/.xemacs/packages")), early-packages has value ("/my/homedir/.xemacs/" "/my/homedir/.xemacs/packages/"). Is there a real reason why removing packages from user home directories would not be allowed? Yours, Jorma Laaksonen -- Jorma Laaksonen email: jorma.laaksonen(a)hut.fi Dr. of Science in Technology, Docent http://www.cis.hut.fi/jorma/ Laboratory of Computer and Information Science tel. +358-9-4513269 Helsinki University of Technology fax. +358-9-4513277 P.O.Box 5400, Fin-02015 HUT, Finland mob. +358-50-3058719 ----------