On 03/17/19 at 06:02pm, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andrew,
I'm not trying to weaken anything; you simply haven't told us why you needed the information beyond "I wanted to". If there was an actual problem you were trying to solve, describing it might help us come up with a better solution.
Okay, sorry.
it sounds like -Qi/-Sii would have been enough
Oh, the second -i adds the `Optional For' output. pacman(1) omits that useful fact. Does this count as a report to get it added?
-i, --info Display information on a given package. The -p option can be used if querying a package file instead of the local database. Passing two --info or -i flags will also display the list of backup files and their modification states.
You're looking at the -Q options; listing reverse dependencies with -ii only applies to -S and is documented in that section.
So I could have done `pacman -Sii gst-plugins-bad' and then looked at the `Optional For' to see what of those I had installed and were upgraded recently. Thanks.