I spent a few hours the other night fiddling around with metalinks and aria2. I came up with an extremely stupid script I wrote for fun. I recommend nobody use it. That being said.. here it is. :) http://code.cactuswax.net/git/?p=random.git;a=blob_plain;f=pacgobbler/pacgob... The only 'good' thing about it, is that it highlights how extensible pacman can be via the external-fetch mechanism. Go pacman!