Carsten Leonhardt <leo(a)arioch.oche.de&gt; writes: Of course. That is the whole idea. In fact last time I built an XEmacs from scratch that was also the case. What is the problem? You points about building the packages from source are valid. However the current situation is already an improvement. It used to be that you could ONLY build ALL the packages from scratch. The clever preload stuff needed for that made it in impossible to build just a single package. Moreover you needed yo make your environment almost an exact copy of that of Steve's. These requirements no longer apply. If this has been achieved at the cost of only some fixable dependency problems in the from-scratch build that is a positive thing. Jan