Stephen> Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] writes: > Stephen> XEmacs in the middle of building itself should not be able to find Stephen> my package hierarchy.) Stephen> Well, maybe it hasn't changed, but there's something wrong if _at Stephen> build time_ core Lisp gets shadowed by stuff in the Stephen> packages. Well, dump time uses the exact same rules as run time. I consider that an extremely desirable property. Stephen> IMO, an XEmacs in the process of building should by default trust Stephen> nothing outside of the core Lisp directories. There should be a Stephen> "more-dumped-lisp.el" file which is either created by a human or by Stephen> ./configure. All stuff from outside the core that gets dumped should Stephen> go into that file. It should contain nothing but explicit loads with Stephen> full pathnames, although if human has a lot of such stuff to dump, he Stephen> might be lazy and add some stuff to load-path. You're right, but the code in question was written at a time where we *had* to get at the packages because of the dumped-lisp files. Once they go away completely, I'm all for scratching all the code associated with it. Steve (Youngs, that is): are there any left? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla