hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/verbose_conflicts.... currently: $ sudo pacman -S foomatic-filters-ppds --noconfirm resolving dependencies... done. looking for inter-conflicts... done. Targets: foomatic-filters-ppds-20051211-1 Total Package Size: 11.5 MB Beginning upgrade process... checking package integrity... done. ERROR: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) expected: $ sudo pacman -S foomatic-filters-ppds --noconfirm resolving dependencies... done. looking for inter-conflicts... done. Targets: foomatic-filters-ppds-20051211-1 Total Package Size: 11.5 MB Beginning upgrade process... checking package integrity... done. ERROR: foomatic-filters-ppds: /usr/share/ppd: exists in filesystem ERROR: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) the patch mentioned above implements this udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org