$sudo pacman -Syu ... :: lomoco: local (1.0-5) appears to be newer than repo (community/1.0-3) ... I know, I installed that! grrr... I know I'm annoying with debian (:D), but debian tools like apt-get or aptitude don't annoy me with these kind of messages at each upgrade. However, what I like in synaptic (gui frontend) is its ability to show these locally installed packages (I don't think apt-get can do it). So what would be great is to disable these messages by default, but being able to list them, with eg pacman -Q --local, or whatever. But that's too hard for me. Anyway, I was looking at pacman code in pacman.c , and saw this : 290 /* debug levels are made more 'human readable' than using a raw logmask 291 * here, we will ALWAYS set error and warning for now, though perhaps a 292 * --quiet option will remove these later */ So I went ahead and tried implementing this quiet flag. However, it's not very useful for me, because I'm too lazy to add an additional flag every time. At least now, I *can* disable these messages... but the behavior I described above would be much better.