Let me weight in too... If the change is not transparent (and it doesn't look like it is) then _don't_ do it. The last thing we need is Debian having an incompatible XEmacs setup.
That said, I'm in favour of some packages setting themselves up completely (no need to add anything to ~/.emacs after installing an emacs related package) when they don't override defaults and only add new functionality (e.g. my gri package sets up gri-mode.el). But the _default_ expected behaviour should not be changed. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/