> well, pacman doesn't work that way - when a package is made,
> directories are not considered... that is, I can make a package with
> 30 empty directories and 1 file, and only that file will installed on
> your system (the directories wont even be part of it)...
> now, that said - saying something like "pacman -Qo /usr/share"
> wouldn't make sense, because the "owner" of that directory would be
> the very first package which placed something in /usr/share... so then
> timestamps would have to be taken into account... it's real messy..

Actually, pacman will create the 30 empty directories and -Ql will list
them as being part of the package.

I think searching directories by default would probably cause too many
false positives.  Maybe if it was a switch...

Jason

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