Inform Option for Packages

[Brian E. Seppanen]

Are there any thoughts to including an inform option to packages?  For the 
most part I'm using 2.1.13. Sometimes I'd like to check what version of a 
package is available without performing any action.  I recently used 
shellcommands to send an email based on the class that was defined, but 
the shellcommand triggered a second run  and so I got double 
the output.

Something that would just print the evaluation of the packages statement?

Thanks,

Brian Seppanen
608.826.1464