Hi, I made a little program in C, package-query to query alpm and aur. He takes an option to format his output and I'm wondering if this feature can be implemented in pacman (just for alpm of course). I think I can provide a patch to implement it for queries like -{Q,S}s with an option --format, but I don't know if it could interest. To see how it renders, you can try package-query-git from AUR, example: $ # repo/name version [local version] $ package-query -Ss pacman -f "%r/%n %v [%l]" core/pacman 3.3.3-1 [3.3.3-1] core/pacman-mirrorlist 20100131-1 [20100131-1] extra/namcap 2.5-1 [2.5-1] extra/srcpac 0.7-1 [-] community/pacman-contrib 3.3.3-1 [3.3.3-1] community/pacpan 4.0-4 [-] community/pacupdate 0.1.1-2 [-] community/powerpill 17.1-1 [17.1-1] community/xpacman 0.11-4 [-] community/xpacman2 1.002-2 [-] btw, thanks for the work done in alpm, I found it quite simple to understand even if there is no documentation :)