First off, I don't like modifying config files. But, given I did this update and still managed to screw my system up when testing it with a reboot... So it is a question of which I hate more; post install messages or automatically fixing the file. A post install message means that I tell all complaining users that they should have read their pacman output. But hang on, they are already told that there is a .pacnew file for what is a very important config file. So I can say that anyway. So here is my prototype install file... post_install() { if [ -f "/etc/inittab.pacnew" ]; then echo "You are being very stupid if you did not take notice of that warning about a .pacnew file" fi } A simple sed of the config file means much, much less complaining users. And given the number of complaints I got about libjpeg7 (wheres the thanks now gtk and kde are working?), I am very, very tempted just to do the sed. Allan