KDE 3.5.4 question SOLVED

This issue was solved by just waiting for the mirrors to sync with the new kdebase 3.5.4.
I'm sure I'm doing something stupid here;)
I see 3.5.4 is in the extra repo. When I run pacman -S kdebase it says I'm current (including extra) at 3.5.3-4.
So.......I'm coming from gentoo so maybe I'm miss configuring something in /etc/pacman.conf? I currently have current, extra and community enabled and with pacman -Syu they are all reporting to be up to date.
Any help would be appreciated.
McRae

wow,
You guys respond quickly :shock:
Glad to hear I'm not just missing something obvious - that's always a bit embarrassing on the forum.
No problem waiting. Loving Arch so far though. Just hoping to see a package for e17 but I already see people with more skill than me working on it. Gotta love it.
Thanks to both of you for your responses.
McRae

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problemkenner wrote:
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