I've started a library for programmatically manipulating and querying Arch Linux package infrastructure. So far we have: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/archlinux-0.1 which supports searching and querying packages on AUR. > info "xmonad" Right (AURInfo { packageID = 10593 , packageName = "xmonad" , packageVersion = Right (Version {versionBranch = [0,8,1] , versionTags = []},"1.2") , packageCategory = 17 , packageDesc = "A lightweight X11 tiled window manager written in Haskell" , packageLocation = 3 , packageURL = "http://xmonad.org/" , packagePath = "/packages/xmonad/xmonad.tar.gz" , packageLicense = "custom:BSD3" , packageVotes = 260 , packageOutOfDate = False }) Useful things we could do with more work: * lint checker -- for all our packages, check they are consistent * hackage version checker -- automatically check versions between hackage and AUR * cabal2arch version checker -- list all packages that were generated with which version of cabal2arch, then auto-rebuild * our own yaourt... -- Don