Adam Kandur skribis: > also, you wrote "fiveam" ,sbcl-fiveam > > why not "sbcl-fiveam" ,sbcl-fiveam It's because of the cl-xxx and ecl-xxx packages that are created by transforming the definition of the sbcl-xxx package to use cl-* or ecl-* packages as inputs instead of sbcl-*. If the sbcl-xxx package has '("sbcl-fiveam" ,sbcl-fiveam)' as input, after transformation the ecl-xxx package will have '("sbcl-fiveam" ,ecl-fiveam)' as inputs, which looks strange (but it will work anyway as the string is just used to reference an input in custom phases using something like '(assoc-ref inputs "sbcl-xxx")'). By using just "fiveam" as string, the sbcl-xxx package has '("fiveam" ,sbcl-fiveam)' as input, and the ecl-xxx package will have '("fiveam" ,ecl-fiveam)'.