Any assigned TU, Please disregard my deletion request for ussdpad, I was very much mistaken about what I was looking at. Thanks to Doug (Scimmia) for bringing my attention to the error - And my apologies to Shashika Layan (packager of ussdpad). An excerpt from an exchange: Jesse McClure <jmcclure@cns.umass.edu> wrote:

Oh dear - I'm very sorry, this was a mistake.

I downloaded the packager's sourceforge tarball, and in the toplevel directory was an install.sh which I thought the PKGBUILD was calling. Apparently the PKGBUILD correctly calls the upstream developers build script.

The install.sh in the packager's sourceforge is loaded with calls to sudo and pacman to install dependencies. I 'misconnected' the dots.

-Jesse AKA 'Trilby' on archlinux.org