Hi guys! Can someone give me write access to pacman git (Dan?), so I don't have to send every patch to the list :) Anyways, I took a bit of time to start writing tag support for pacman and makepkg, which is usefull now we don't have categories anymore like we had before (and still have for community). You should be warned that I did not yet do a code cleanup (that will come when all features are in), but it is starting to get a bit messy with patch files on my local box so I like to commit. I guess the patch should work both against pacman git and 3.2.0 at the moment. How does it work? in PKGBUILD, define a field called tags, for example: tags=('gnome' 'gtk' 'network' 'messenger') compile with makepkg as usual. Install with pacman with attached patch applied. the tags field should show up in 'pacman -Qi'. Further you can search the local database (only long option is working, short option not yet, have to look into it). You can search with (multiple tags works): pacman -Q --tags gnome My little TODO list for next pacman release: - be able to search for tags in the repos - get short options working - write proper documentation - cleanup So please patch it into git, or better give me access. Any comments are welcome. Regards, Ronald