The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Hi! It seems to me that package-index.2000-09-24 in /anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages declares gnus-1.45-pkg.tar.gz as the latest version though package-index.2000-09-12 says it is gnus-1.50-pkg.tar.gz. Something must have gone wrong somewhere. I have a couple of suggestions that would make living with xemacs packages still a bit easier. 1) *Packages* buffer should highlight the packages for which the installed version is newer than the latest version with an ugly color. This would indicate the above-mentioned gnus version problem and other similar ones. (We also seem to have idlwave 1.20 installed though 1.05 seems to be the latest version...) 2) It would be nice if the *Packages* buffer could show which packages are being loaded from the user's ~/.xemacs/packages instead of the system location. Even better would be if the buffer could tell something like "you can now uninstall your own copy of this package as the system administrator has installed an up-to-date version in default locations." Yours, Jorma -- Jorma Laaksonen email: jorma.laaksonen(a)hut.fi Dr. of Science in Technology, Docent http://www.cis.hut.fi/jorma/ Laboratory of Computer and Information Science tel. +358-9-4513269 Helsinki University of Technology fax. +358-9-4513277 P.O.Box 5400, Fin-02015 HUT, Finland mob. +358-50-3058719