> _alpm_trans_init(tr, PM_TRANS_TYPE_UPGRADE, ... I think that as a hotfix, a new transaction type would solve this problem: PM_TRANS_TYPE_UPGRADERM or similar. And if you want to speed-up pacman by some nanosec, you can remove "if(!alpm_list_find_str(rqdby, pkgname))" because that is not needed now :-) Bye, Nagy Gabor