Hi! This is in very early stage, just a proof of concept. Just for testing only (not merging to cvs). If you want to test it, after compiling, run 'pacman --repair' <- this creates the extra infos for the local db. Now .groups implemented only, so speedup will be seen with -Qg or similar. Fully compatible with the old db; it checks whether the speedup dotdir exists (if the answer is yes, it uses it). There is no option in "my" pacman to create speedup dirs for sync repos (because it should be downloaded in db.tar.gz), but if you want to play with it for testing, rename the repo to local and run 'pacman --repair' and rename back... Bye, Nagy Gabor My first test results: (after sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches;) Old: real 0m4.522s user 0m0.029s sys 0m0.060s New: real 0m0.788s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.012s