FS#54578 - Add pkgbase to pacman -Qi output

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Flow It (FlowIt) - Saturday, 24 June 2017, 21:55 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Output
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version git
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It would be nice to have pacman -Qi also output the value of the pkgbase variable, if it was set. If there are no arguments against it I would start working on a patch.
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Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 21:46 GMT
What would be the utility of this? If it is a matter of scripting, it would be better to use expac than parse the output of pacman -Q
Comment by Flow It (FlowIt) - Monday, 18 December 2017, 21:11 GMT
Well the bug report was opened half a year ago, I cannot say for sure what made me open it. It was probably just out of curiosity how many packages I have that have a common base. It's just informative output, does neither add complexity to the code nor to the output. Pacmans man page says that -Q prints meta information. The pkgbase field IS meta information. I just feel that its missing. Thats all.

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