[To xemacs-review: Patch at end is 21.0 material. See also the comment about 21.2 being behind 21.0] "Dmitry Yaitskov" <dimas(a)home.com&gt; writes: Well, this means that 21.2.9 still has the bug that packages-special-base-regexp is not synced with 21.0 properly. 21.0's packages-special-base-regexp is ^\(etc\|info\|lisp\|lib-src\|bin\|pkginfo\|man\)$ Anyway that should NOT matter. (last late-packages) is only a fallback of last resort. [ checks source ] He, grmbl, I _thought_ we are doing that already. Please apply this patch 1999-02-06 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; * package-admin.el (package-admin-get-install-dir): First fall back to the location of xemacs-base for non-mule packages. bolzano:/scratch/vroonhof/cvs/xemacs-20> cvs diff lisp/package-admin.el Index: lisp/package-admin.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/package-admin.el,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 package-admin.el --- package-admin.el 1999/01/04 01:34:A38 1.11 +++ package-admin.el 1999/02/07 04:07:11 ＠＠ -177,7 +177,9 ＠＠ ;; Ok we need to guess (if mule-related (package-admin-get-install-dir 'mule-base nil nil) - (car (last late-packages))))))) + (if (eq package 'xemacs-base) + (car (last late-packages)) + (package-admin-get-install-dir 'xemacs-base nil nil)))))))