Hi, I only occasionally install individual packages from `testing` or `community-testing`, mostly if there's a bugfix that has not migrated to the stable repositories. However, if I just uncomment the relevant sections in `/etc/pacman.conf`, the command $ pacman -Syu will try to upgrade all installed packages to the versions from the testing repositories, because they come first. I was wondering whether it would be better to change the order of the repositories in `pacman.conf` to be # The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the # repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. [core] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[testing] #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[community-testing] #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system, # enable the multilib repositories as required here. #[multilib] #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[multilib-testing] #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Of course, this would make it less straight-forward for someone wanting to install a testing-only system, but is that a common use-case *except* for the developers? Just an idea... Cheers Stefan -- http://stefan-klinger.de o/X I prefer receiving plain text messages, not exceeding 32kB. /\/ \