Hi all, Apologies for the long mail but do read on. My name is Aashik and i have been using Arch for the last two days. I was planning to simply try it, but decided to stick with it because i like its simplicity. Only one annoying thing happened to me. I am from India and my mother tongue is Malayalam. I tried to use scim and m17n version of malayalam input methods. There were a few glitches. I noticed that it is out of date and is currently flagged as 'orphan' when you do a package search. To be precise, the following packages. m17n-db,m17n-lib,scim-m17n There have been some commits made in the last few months from a project called SMC ( http://smc.org.in ) which enables phonetic text input in Malayalam via m17n also. I did not file a bug report because it asks everyone not to report outdated packages as bugs.Is anyone actively maintaining i686 these packages ? If not I can do it. I have spare time ( i took some time off from work ) . I don't know a thing about creating packages and things like that. If someone can answer my questions and doubts as they pop up , I can take up this task. Regards Aashik -------------------------------------------------------