Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: There are several problems here 1. XEmacs 21.2 is missing the patch that updates packages-special-base-regexp to include man. 2. The package scanning system is fundamentally flawed in that in requires p-s-b-r it will mistake any new added toplevel hierarchy for a package tree. I whished it just stopped scanning when it found xemacs-packages and NOT include any subdirs. 3. The fallback used by package-get to find the location is (last late-packages). In the light of 2. this is naive. However this should not really be a problem as it should try to find xemacs-base and use where that is installed. Could you try to find out why (package-admin-get-install-dir 'xemacs-base nil) does not give the right thing. 4. You really should put pgnus-0.66 in site-packages. Jan