John> I sent a patch many moons ago to fix this problem. In some sense When and where did you send it? I couldn't find it. Please re-send it if possible. Thanks, Adrian John> packge-get-update-all does not currently do the right thing. It uses John> package-get-all which fetches dependent packages. This is bad since John> someone may intentionally not have a certain package even though it is John> declared as required by a package they do have (e.g., vm is not really John> needed to use efs). Fetching of dependent packages should be done at John> the time a user initially gets a package. John> So, packge-get-update-all should use package-get in place of John> package-get-all (works like package-get-all, but it does not also get John> dependent packages). If a dependent package requires updating, that John> will still be picked up. Moreover, by making this change, we would John> fix the problem of getting some packages many times when using John> package-get-update-all. John> John Jones John> --------------------------------------------------------------- John> Department of Mathematics Office: PSA 729 John> Arizona State University Phone: 965-3725 John> Tempe, AZ 85287-1804 FAX: 965-8119 John> URL: http://math.la.asu.edu/~jj e-mail: JJ(a)asu.edu John> --------------------------------------------------------------- -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com