On 03/17/19 at 06:02pm, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > 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. > > Okay, sorry. > > > it sounds like -Qi/-Sii would have been enough > > Oh, the second -i adds the `Optional For' output. pacman(1) omits that > useful fact. Does this count as a report to get it added? > > -i, --info > Display information on a given package. The -p option can be > used if querying a package file instead of the local database. > Passing two --info or -i flags will also display the list of > backup files and their modification states.
You're looking at the -Q options; listing reverse dependencies with -ii only applies to -S and is documented in that section. > So I could have done `pacman -Sii gst-plugins-bad' and then looked at > the `Optional For' to see what of those I had installed and were > upgraded recently. Thanks.
