Andy> At 11:39 PM 6/15/98 +0200, Adrian Aichner wrote: Andy> Doesn't this mean package-get-base.el is reloaded for every Andy> package when you update your packages? If so this seems bad Andy> to me. The original behaviour was that it got loaded once at Andy> the beginning. Hello Andy! you're right. I over-reacted in an attempt to make sure package-get-base is loaded before it is used by any functions in package-get.el. package-get.el hasn't been augmented in a long time (e.g. I submitted a suggestion to make it fetch packages asynchronuously around the end of March 98) and I don't think it's ready to ship. It would probably be good enough to just (require 'package-get-base) at the beginning of package-get.el and get rid of the spreaded (load "package-get-base.el") altogether. Adrian Andy> andy -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com