JV> No, this is intentional. The package-get-remote is empty for 2 JV> reasons JV> 1. To make sure XEmacs does not go remote JV> unintentionally. There however is now also some logic to try JV> to only go remote if that would be 'logical' to users. This is JV> not likely to be 100% correct. JV> 2. To force people to make a conscious decision about choosing JV> the site/mirror. Just defaulting to a site killed JV> ftp.us.debian.org when the new experimental package fetcher JV> for debian did that. I can sympathize with both reasons. However, the error message that occurs when pui-list-packages is run isn't too helpful for someone who might be less experienced. It just bombs out saying No remote package sites specified in `package-get-remote'. Okay, how do know where to set this to? I'll admit I'm giving suggestions without donating code, and for that I apologize ;-). What might be useful however is, once you've got a bunch of mirrors lined up, you could pre-load this variable with those sites, and do a random pick of a mirror from those choices. As for not going remote unintentionally, you could show some message in the pui-list-packages buffer and have a single boolean custom variable that says "go-remote?". Thanks, -Barry