Thank you Ben, people who follow up on an issue they have found a solution for are good people. On Aug 23, 2012 1:35 PM, "Ben Booth" <bwbooth@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > >