GB> Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] writes: GB> the same approach is held by different TeX distributions, using GB> the kpathsea library: GB> ---------------------------------------- from the info file ----- GB> [...] The library's fundamental purpose is to return a filename GB> from a list of directories specified by the user, similar to what GB> shells do when looking up program names to execute. GB> ----------------------------------------------------------------- No, this is fundamentally different as kpathsea is a low-level library operating at the file level. It is hugely bloated, buggy in some design aspects, and causes (if you use its directory-in-a-file feature) synchronization problems without end in practice. We've gone over kpathsea already numerous time for the job. For XEmacs, what's needed is something which works at the package level in a quite different way. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla