> It's on my todo-list, haven't done anything about it yet. Mind you I don't > think the exactarch-behavior is necessarily a win-win situation either > because it breaks when a package's arch is downgraded on purpose like we > all saw with this particular change. Having it as an option is/would be > nice though. I agree, Matthias had a pretty good suggestion. have a list of packages that should not change arch, if at all possible, and only treat those as special: glibc kernel kernel-smp etc etc. -sv