Hi all,

Is this something pacman devs would be interested in adding to pacman? I found myself wanting such a feature a couple of times in the past, and after a recent reddit post I tried to make it a thing

Common use case - adding and searching for user notes in installed packages. Those notes would be inside the %XDATA% field in localdb. My current implementation has a simple --xdata <key>=<value> param for -S-U operations, which is then added to the current transaction packages in sync_prepare_execute. As well as -Q --xdata-search <regex> param, which allows for searching. Changes affect pacman and libalpm, although no existing exported libalpm functions were changed

What do you think?