On 16 February 2012 22:52, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could you elaborate a bit on that ? Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed > to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies > of 'foo' ? That anyway is what apperently it has done for the last > three years I've been using it... That's what you got wrong. pacman -S foo only installs deps, does NOT update them if they are already in the system.