quote: this is unrelated with arch-releng, please report such thing in bugs.archlinux.org, thanks It is not a bug as pacman is doing what it is told to do, I was merely warning people. pacman -S xorg-drivers --ignore xf86-intel-sna will more than likely work [not tried it yet!] may need addition of --no-confirm --needed The fact remains that mkarchiso ignores--- ignore in pacman.conf Will look at code later to see if I can make a workaround MrG