While testing out all these new packages recently, a lot of the time I just download the *.pkg.tar.gz, and then pacman3 -U *.pkg.tar.gz. The problem is that it will then complain about uninstalled deps. I would like to have the dependencies synced in with the correct notations in the pacman database, but there is no current way to accomplish this with pacman3.

I have 2 possible solutions.

1) Add a -Us option to sync deps from the current pacman db. Maybe even add a -Ul to search the current directory for *.pkg.tar.gz of the correct dependency before checking the pacman db.

2) Let -S take a url, thus downloading the package temporarily and then syncing the install with the pacman db.

I prefer #1, but there are many ways to go about this.