Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: This is not an automatic package update feature. However this code tries to recommend installing a package and the data base updating is automatic. That's why... 1. package-get-package-provider should get an additional argument "update" that when NIL tells it use locally available data only. Greg? 2. package-get should cache the data locally. I think Greg has a patch for this but unfortunately this is not in the CVS. 3. A version of this local data should come with XEmacs releases. It is rather unfortunate that Steve is out of the loop at the moment since I believe it would be possible to get a decent 21.0 out of the door soonish if only we could get some quick release-patch-release-test-release-* cycles to finish up things like this. Jan