Just a quick update on what I'm currently working on... fakeroot - http://repo.or.cz/w/pacman.git?a=shortlog;h=fakeroot Rediffed with recent changes to makepkg (nudge nudge Dan ;P) autoconf_scripts - http://repo.or.cz/w/pacman.git?a=shortlog;h=autoconf_scripts The first stage to removing hard-coding of version numbers and paths. changes so far are: * add autoconf substitution for version number * add -V|--version options to scripts ToDo: * remove hard-coding of config files and paths * merge in gettext changes Andrew