Ok, I think it's about time I picked up pacman developement, seeing as we really have no one else doing it. I've been busy, so I was really hoping someone else would volunteer, but what the hell. If you frugalware guys could send me a full diff (here or offlist) of your repo compared to the trunk, that'd be great. I don't like applying patches without verifying them, so I'm going to step through each hunk (this is why I originally requested them as the seperate patches sent to the ML, but I can deal with it either way). One thing i plan on doing right off the bat: I want to enable a side-by-side install with the current pacman, so that we can get some real testing by those (like me) who don't want to overwrite the stable pacman. This is just informational, but it shouldn't affect the frugalware guys. To the furgalware team: you have more experience with this new pacman that I do... could you give me a brief "what's changed" - functionality wise. I mean, when actually using pacman3, what is done differently? What future directions are we going for? I'd like to get this stable as soon as possible, but once that's done, I have a handful of nifty features I wanted to add (those on the dev list: I want to add filesystem hooks first, then some more advanced output logging). There are also some potential changes to gensync and friends, depending on what direction we go with some svn changes... but that's off topic. Anyway, let me know. Aaron Griffin - phrakture -