On 03/17/19 at 03:31pm, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
`pacman -Su' suggested an optional dependency of gst-plugins-bad. I looked to see what that was and didn't want it. Later, due to discussion on the local LUG IRC, I wanted to look up what package had the new optional depends but found /var/log/pacman.log didn't record it. Please consider logging them.
Looking at the optional depends of all the upgraded packages, I think it was webkit2gtk, but if it were logged then I could check if there were any new optional depends in the more general case, e.g. looking back in time.
Based on your description, this sounds like a case of "I was mildly curious about something this one time, so please make a permanent record of this information on every user's system in case I happen to be curious about it again in the future." I understand the desire, but there are already tools to find what a package optionally depends on and what optionally depends on a package. Before we start bloating every user's log with extraneous information, there needs to be a more substantial use case than just idle curiosity.