While parsing the package-index file to build a nice tree of who requires who, I found that some of the entries contain themselves. For example: (package-get-update-base-entry (quote (gnus --^^^^ (standards-version 1.1 version "1.55" author-version "5.8.8" date "2001-02-14" build-date "2001-02-18" maintainer "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt;&quot; distribution xemacs priority medium category "comm" dump nil description "The Gnus Newsreader and Mailreader." filename "gnus-1.55-pkg.tar.gz" md5sum "926b8cb1b770bf367d260f7b1f33b017" size 2353348 provides (gnus message) requires (gnus w3 mh-e mailcrypt rmail eterm mail-lib --------------^^^^ xemacs-base fsf-compat) type regular )) )) Is there a reason for this, or is it an accident? -Jim