On 2/23/07, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/23/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Its not actually a bug. You are looking at pacman interpreting regular expressions, so '+' is a special character. You'll note that if you escape it like the following (and use quotes) it will work fine. pacman -Ss "dvd\+rw"
Perhaps pacman should search for both the regex and non-regex version? Most people wouldn't complain about getting extra results they didn't expect (i.e. all the regex matches here), but most _would_ complain if they didn't get what they wanted.
Can you (Scott or anyone else with an interest in it) file this as a feature request? You can assign it to me if you have the permissions to do so. I just don't think I'm going to get to this in the immediate future, so it would be a nice record to have on there. -Dan