Hi, This was discussed back in 2013 already [1]; we should drop the remaining LIRC kernel driver shipped with lirc and move it to [unsupported]. It has been declared dead by upstream in [2]. I am going to do that when bumping the lirc package to 0.9.2. There are two options: * Move the lirc package (which contains only the kernel driver) to [unsupported] and keep the lirc-utils package (which is the official LIRC project). * Rename the lirc-utils package to lirc and upload the lirc driver package to the AUR under another name. I would suggest wpc87691, as that is the only kernel module from lirc that is not included in the kernel yet. This requires a news entry on the front page. The first option means that users won't end up with a removed driver module but we would have to keep using the name lirc-utils for what is called lirc upstream. The second option means that pacman will auto-remove the wpc87691 driver and a small group of users will have to manually reinstall the module from [unsupported]. FWIW, Fedora has been using the package name lirc for what we have been calling lirc-utils for a long time and the Fedora package maintainer is the current upstream maintainer. Opinions? Regards, Lukas [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-October/025541.ht... [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/mailman/message/33235360/