I guess this is not going to change, Fons. So, may I make one suggestion? You could create a script to do the following: 1) rsync your /usr/lib to something like /libsforever 2) run pacman with provided arguments from commandline 3) rsync back whats in /libsforever to /usr/lib skipping older files Its not pretty, I should say, but would work. -- Guilherme M. Nogueira "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
