Description:
When I launch pacman -Qi <package> after a fresh boot, pacman is slow and it takes 14 secs in my 5400-RPM HDD. I traced the system calls and the command opens and read thousands of files in the local database at /var/lib/pacman/local/, which is unnecessary for a -Qi option. For searching operations that's understandable but for this operation, it should be a direct read to that package files only.

Additional info:
* package version(s): pacman 5.2.2-1

Steps to reproduce:

$ time pacman -Qi aalib
Name : aalib
Version : 1.4rc5-14
Description : A portable ASCII art graphic library
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
Licenses : LGPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gpm libx11
Optional Deps : None
Required By : gst-plugins-good
Optional For : vlc xine-lib
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 287.11 KiB
Packager : Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Thu 14 May 2020 04:35:32 PM CAT
Install Date : Thu 14 May 2020 11:23:53 PM CAT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature


real 0m14.146s
user 0m0.175s
sys 0m0.622s