eliott wrote:

3. Why would someone need to search to see what owns a file that they
don't have on their system, with pacman?


This is apparently regularly needed, I see the !owns command of phrik in #archlinux used every day. An user might know that he needs some library file, or some binary, without knowing the package name.
Here is a typical example :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4824#comment14448

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