hi if you install packages in a chroot just as a dependency and remove them just after the build, then it worth to skip the pre/post_install/remove scriptlets http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=plain_commitdif...; this patch implements this for libalpm & pacman yes, the patch does not apply cleanly, there is a failed hunk, but Aurelien said before that's the a big problem so i won't fix it also probably the the value of PM_TRANS_FLAG_NOSCRIPTLET should be changed to 0x100 udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org