Happy new year! It would be useful for third-party developers to have access to the Pacman configuration file parsing functions and datatypes in src/pacman/conf.h. Would you consider providing a shared library for this (or adding it to libalpm)? It would be more reliable than third-party custom parsers. Aside from providing the actual shared object file, the only change needed* would be to remove the lines from parseconfig (conf.c) that free config->repos so that users could access repo information directly via config->repos after invoking the function (config_free will free that memory later). Regards, Xyne * It would be nice as well to have the option of parsing a file without initializing alpm, but that isn't necessary and I expect that would require more intrusive changes due to the current use of a global variable.