I just checked: /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.2000-02-11 And didn't see any problems. The entry for idlwave is: (package-get-update-base-entry (quote (idlwave (standards-version 1.1 version "1.1" author-version "3.15" date "2000-02-04" build-date "2000-02-11" maintainer "Carsten Dominik <dominik(a)astro.uva.nl&gt;&quot; distribution xemacs priority medium category "prog" dump nil description "Editing and Shell mode for the Interactive Data Language" filename "idlwave-1.1-pkg.tar.gz" md5sum "21f2874d186e9c16ea462056fccc292f" size 263541 provides (idlwave) requires (fsf-compat xemacs-base) type regular )) )) And this is just fine. Or what am I missing? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj(a)suse.de private aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de