SY> |--==> "MS" == Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; writes: MS> You're right, but the code in question was written at a time where we MS> *had* to get at the packages because of the dumped-lisp files. Once MS> they go away completely, I'm all for scratching all the code MS> associated with it. MS> Steve (Youngs, that is): are there any left? SY> I'm pretty sure that there aren't. The XEmacs I built after my hard SY> drive crash was built without *any* packages installed. It built and SY> ran fine. That wasn't the question: the question is if building *with* packages installed still finds any dumped-lisp.el files there. If it doesn't, Steve and I would rather remove the code silliness associated with it entirely, a plan Steve Baur and I hatched a long time ago. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla