[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Allow package to display a brief message before sync install

[Xavier]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The user should be made aware that there is a ChangeLog, and they have a
> means of easily reading that before installation or upgrade.
>
> There's no need to bloat makepkg, PKGBUILDs, and pacman.
> You only need to add a little to pacman like this.
>

changelog can not be read before a transaction because they are not in
the sync databases, only in local one.
IIRC, Nagy was complaining about that some times ago.