On 03/17/19 at 04:49pm, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Based on your description, this sounds like a case of "I was mildly curious about something this one time
No, it would have been useful to know. There's no need to overly weaken it.
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.
I understand the desire, but there are already tools to find what a package optionally depends on and what optionally depends on a package.
Have you one in mind? It's not pactree(1), I checked that first.
Depends somewhat on exactly what you need. Based on the information you have provided, it sounds like -Qi/-Sii would have been enough, but paccheck would be another potentially useful tool.
Before we start bloating every user's log with extraneous information
Point taken, though looking at pacman.log, it would be very slight bloat given all its existing content.