I was just using pacman 3 (RC 1) and the -Rs option doesn't work as expected, the dependencies are not removed from the system, even though the pacman database believes they have. For example: I type 'pacman -S aalib' to install aalib Pacman informs me that both gpm-1.20.1-6 and aalib-1.4rc5-4 are to be installed I press enter to continue with the installation. I then type 'pacman -Rs aalib' to remove it and its dependency (gpm) Pacman informs me that both aalib and gpm are to be uninstalled I press enter to confirm and all I get is the following: (1/2) removing aalib [#####################] 100% jeff@jeff:~$ It does not mention removing gpm at all, apart from in the 'Targets' section This has removed aalib from the system and the database, but has not removed gpm from the system, only the database. To prove this I try to install gpm and it complains that all the files already exist in the filesystem and fails with errors. To remove the files I have to force-install, then remove each package manually, which is rather tedious when you do this for a package with many dependencies. Jeff