Eli, > And I would like to reiterate: really, really, REALLY, do not use > --overwrite unless you know what you're doing or have done as the OP did > and asked (and been told to do so). The entire *point* of the option is > to declare that your Arch installation is broken and you need to tell > pacman that pacman is wrong about your files. By stepping off the beaten > path, you incur the possibility of being wrong and making things a lot > worse. i wonder if maybe a suitable, upper-cased, warning added to the "--overwrite" section of the man page might be useful? cheers, Greg
