You've hit on *the* 3 things I think really need to be fixed in pui-list-packages. CW> GK> try this. i submitted to patches last night but haven't even gotten GK> the usual (immediate) confirmation. i will resubmit. CW> CW> Thanks, now it doesn't delete some packages anymore. CW> CW> But it now adds packages I hadn't previously installed (including the CW> Mule files which are added to xemacs-packages/ and not mule-packages/). This is due to also grabbing the packages required by a package, which I personally hate. Also, I dislike that it never asks where to install packages. CW> It also didn't update to reftex-3.41, for example, as the 21.0-pre14 CW> announcement of SL Baur (1.10) would suggest. In fact, my CW> package-get-base.el (Sep 29 23:19) says s.th about author-version 3.38. CW> CW> Just curious: does selecting the menu item (updating packages) CW> checks whether to update the package-get-base itself? No, currently it does not.