Hi! I wanted to search packages with "-Ss -hu" and I found that -hu is treated as a new switch. So here is my little patch to set that --search requires an argument. (Anyway, I could search with .*-hu :-) -------------------- --- pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c.old 2007-03-31 09:26:09.000000000 +0200 +++ pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c 2007-03-31 09:33:39.000000000 +0200 @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ {"print-uris", no_argument, 0, 'p'}, {"root", required_argument, 0, 'r'}, {"recursive", no_argument, 0, 's'}, - {"search", no_argument, 0, 's'}, + {"search", required_argument, 0, 's'}, {"upgrades", no_argument, 0, 'u'}, {"sysupgrade", no_argument, 0, 'u'}, {"verbose", no_argument, 0, 'v'}, @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ struct stat st; unsigned short logmask; - while((opt = getopt_long(argc, argv, "ARUFQSTr:b:vkhscVfmnoldepiuwyg", opts, &option_index))) { + while((opt = getopt_long(argc, argv, "ARUFQSTr:b:vkhs:cVfmnoldepiuwyg", opts, &option_index))) { if(opt < 0) { break; } ----------------------- Bye, Nagy Gabor