Hi! We discussed here that an option to change the install-reason of an installed package would be nice: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-September/009271.html So what about a new -D (like database) operation: set of commands to modify localdb (for experts only;-)? We could add a --reason (or --explicit and --dependency) option to this operation. For example: pacman -De xorg. (-D can be combined with Xavier's testdb to rebuild requiredby field etc. etc.) Here we can see some limitation of the current ("getopt") front-end (user should have to do -Qi, -D..., -Qi here): it's powerful for simple -A, -U, -S, -R commands, but an interactive (not necessarily graphical) front-end would be more comfortable for group operations, universal transactions (define operations per package), -D ... Bye, ngaba ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/