Hi everyone, I am writing this mail for a variety of reasons. First of all, some discussion in the forums, and then, because it's something that I've been thinking about for a long time. There have been many requests, AFAIK, for bringing pacman a binary database. Currently I'm writing a libalpm frontend, with some other guys (works in progress are @ KDEMod Forums), and we would really like to bring some improvements to Alpm, starting from its database. Every time this question arises (by doing a search through the forums), the answer is always "show us some code first". Well, nothing wrong with that, and unfortunately I have nothing to show now, but for a simple reason. Maybe I did not search well, but I still haven't found an answer to the following question: "Are pacman/alpm devs interested in having a binary database instead of the text based one?". If there is no interest, it would be useless to start coding. So I'd like to hear some voices/opinions. Then I will be more than happy to show some code. Cheers, Dario