[pacman-dev] Discrepancy between -Si and -Qi output

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu> wrote:
> I noticed that "Required By" and "Optional For" are shown in the
> output of "pacman -Qi <package>", but these fields are missing from
> the output of "pacman -Si <package>".
>
> Is this omission intentional or should I file a bug on the bug tracker?
>
> Jason
>

You can ask if it's on purpose. This info is available if you run
'pacman -Sii <package>'.