Hi, while working on php I realized that I really need something like "optionaldepends" in a PKGBUILD. I am not sure about the current status of this; the last time it was decided that we print some message to the user using the install scripts. But I am not very happy with that kind of workaround. It would be much cleaner to have such support in makepkg/pacman itself. It would be enough if those are just information which the user can ask for if needed. Currently you have to grep through pacman.log to see those messages after you have installed a package. It could be implemented the following way: PKGBUILD optionaldepends=('package':'optional description why you might want to \ isntall this optional package' \ 'next package') makepkg treat optionaldepends like makedepends pacman show optional packages and their (optional) description after install add a switch to show those information after the package is allready installed As an example of how "userfriendly" our current solution is see http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/devel/php/php.install?rev=1.5&cvsroot=Extra&only_with_tag=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Pierre -- archlinux.de