Hi, I thought I'd run this past people on this list before I spent the two weeks that this would take me to figure out how to implement it! This is motivated by experience packaging for Arch. Install scriptlets are written assuming /bin/sh is bash, which is true on a default system. But some people want to change their /bin/sh to (e.g.) dash. As pacman uses the default shell (as given by /bin/sh) to run install scriptlets, pointing /bin/sh at dash may cause failures when bash specific features are used. So I thought, why not manually specify the shell for install scriptlets in pacman.conf. Something like "INSTALL_SHELL=/bin/sh" by default. Then _alpm_runscriptlet would call something like "<shell> -c ". <scriptlet path> && <function>" (which works for bash, dash, zsh, pdksh). Comments? Allan