- add a [sibling] option to .PKGINFO -- used when only one of the siblings can be installed at a time (eg, bsdinit,sysvinit) - sort packages by package name in pacman.db ? manage conditional file installs (ie, 'info' pages) - maybe add a 'confirm every action' option for doing paranoid installs - add a consistency check operation - add file locking to db - add a --dbpath option + dependency checking - upgrade currently does a double db backup; not really desirable