Scenario: mplayer-svn is in unstable, mplayer is in current. mplayer-svn has provides/conflicts for mplayer, mplayer does not for mplayer-svn (it seems typical that packages in current don't deal with packages outside of current/extra). If I have mplayer-svn installed and try to install mplayer, I get the following: $ pacman -S mplayer resolving dependencies... done. looking for inter-conflicts... :: mplayer conflicts with mplayer-svn. Remove mplayer-svn? [Y/n] done. error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: mplayer-svn requires acidrip :: mplayer-svn requires mplayer-plugin (First, two minor problems. The "done" is very confusing - I assume it's from the inter-conflicts statement, but it reads as removing mplayer-svn is done. Also, the "mplayer-svn requires acidrip" should read "acidrip requires mplayer-svn" (sorry yankees26).) But the point is that this behavior seems "broken" to me. Surely if mplayer-svn provides mplayer, you should be able to swap mplayer-svn for mplayer. Scott