Hi, This is a reminder for myself and a FYI for anyone else that is interested. There is a new Arch fork called Icadyptes (http://icadyptes.org/) which does some changes to makepkg and to a lesser extend pacman (see http://icadyptes.org/index.php?q=node/2). Their git repo is here: http://gitweb.icadyptes.org/?p=icadyptes-core/.git;a=tree;f=base/pacman;hb=H... Maybe there is something useful there that would worth merging. Adding something like "runtimedeps" has been previously suggested but from memory the patch never got updated for inclusion. Other makepkg changes listed will probably never make it here... Anyway, I will give the Icadyptes dev a ping to suggest that any changes could/should be CCed here so we can decide whether to include them. Allan