Ben Booth wrote: > In case anyone's still interested in this, I found a pacman.conf option > called NoExtract, which lets you tell pacman not to overwrite certain > files and directories in the filesystem. So you could add the following > line to /etc/pacman.conf: > > NoExtract = /usr/bin/python Actually it should be NoExtract = usr/bin/python without the root slash. sorry for the typo. Ben