There seems to be a change in behavior dealing with removing packages on an -S operation due to package conflicts. In the past, it was clear when pacman was removing a package because you got the progress line. Now, it appears to silently remove. For example, if I have python-mpd-git installed and do a pacman -S python-mpd, which of course conflicts with the former, I get the following: $ pacman -S python-mpd resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: python-mpd conflicts with python-mpd-git. Remove python-mpd-git? [Y/n] Remove (1): python-mpd-git-20090101-1 Total Removed Size: 0.05 MB Targets (1): python-mpd-0.2.1-2 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 0.05 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] I chose yes to the first question but I'm not sure if it has yet been removed by the time I get to the second question. (Testing this, I see that it hasn't.) If I then click yes to proceed with the installation, I get: :: Retrieving packages from extra... python-mpd-0.2.1-2-i686 7.7K 49.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################] 100% checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [#############################]100% (1/1) installing python-mpd [#############################]100% So it never shows that the package was removed. I think it would be better if it did, like when I do a pacman -R operation. I believe it worked this way in the past and it seems more obvious to the user what's happening. Scott