Hi! I ran into a difficult problem: What about symlink directories, if an other package wants to pull some new files to them? Let me explain with an example: See packages git (it contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm). However, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ is a symlink to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/. What should the package manager do here? The current situation: git package simply overwrites /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ symlink with a regular directory, so the dir 5.8.8 contains only git.pm now :-( If we install git first then perl's install script cannot do anything useful with the existing 5.8.8 dir: result is the same :-( The problem main problem, that currently I cannot solve this problem: if pacman treated the 5.8.8 symlink as an existing dir (in the first example), then Git.pm would be copied to current, which easily can run out of pacman's control (if the 5.8.8 symlink will be deleted later with a forced -Rd perl). It's hard to find a good solution imho, pacman should follow dir symlink during package install, and something should be recorded into db (to FILES: 5.8.8/file->current/file), but the precise handling of this would cause big overhead, and is not easy... Bye, ngaba