I have no Arch system at hand, but isn't that what pacman -Si would do? curl <the-list> | xargs -n 1 pacman -Si (completely untested, requires at least fil

I have no Arch system at hand, but isn't that what pacman -Si would do? curl <the-list> | xargs -n 1 pacman -Si (completely untested, requires at least filtering the comments the list already has and the headlines) DRY, don't type what can be generated.