irchat & other package updates

First, has someone latest irchat package since it is not in /pub/xemacs/packages... (BTW, if there are problems with idea.el, irchat does not require it and could be distributed without it - just add a note pointing original site.) I finally started using package tools. Getting updated package list required some digging, since package-ui seems not have any direct commands for that. (BTW, latest package list lists irchat - with zenirc description.) I have all package tarballs copied to local directory. Adding directory was quite simple, though I don't it's a good idea to delete local tarballs by default. I had old versions of packages installed with symlinks (installit Perl tool), and tried to upgrade on top of those. Old lisp directories were removed and replaced without promblems, but is there some particular reason why etc and info were not updated? I haven't followed discussion that closely... package-ui is quite useful, but I'd like it to make distinction between multiple install dirs. Say, if I want to install some packages to ~/.xemacs, some to xemacs-21.0/lib/xemacs-packages and some to xemacs/lib/xemacs-packages, I'd like to know which versions are installed where and to easily change targets. Setting pui-package-install-dir to "~/.xemacs" caused package to be silently installed to ~/lisp etc. Adding slash helped... Then deleting packages required eval'ing, since ~/.xemacs was not default location. Looking good already... (Sorry, no time to make patches right now.) -- Pekka Marjola * pema(a)iki.fi * http://www.iki.fi/pema/ * PGPid 0x2865206D