Hi list, For a while I have been working on and testing pacpartial, a small program of my own creation which aims to allow some degree of partial upgrades on Arch. It attempts to find and update a "stale" tree of packages related to a given one, to minimise breaks. Currently it is a massive hack (Python calling pacman & pactree) but it works well from my usage. I would love to use libalpm but cannot find documentation! :) Any tests, thoughts and comments are appreciated. https://github.com/tmewett/pacpartial Thanks, Tom M