sperber(a)Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: I consider that a problem. It could very well be that bar.el was removed for reasons other than obsoleteness and could be causing problems etc. On the other hand I don't think being allowed to specify the version at runtime is worth the hassle (I agree it is hard). Maybe one should have more control at startup time of the package path. I think dependencies etc are best left to a static tool, i.e. a package manager. It was and/is appreciated, "I was there". I am sorry if you get the feeling I am shooting the messenger M-Backspace implementer. I was just trying to point out (mainly for Hrvoje and Steve) that as a long as cleanlyness is going to be comprised for speed there are other possibilities apart from sticking everything in a single lisp dir. Jan