[arch-general] pacman: -Ss search results weird

[Uli Armbruster]

* Marek Otahal <markotahal at gmail.com> [22.04.2011 23:19]:
> Hi, 
> regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is 
> Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search 
> behavior.
> 
> [marek at beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog
> core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [installed]
>     A highly capable, feature-rich programming language
> core/syslog-ng 3.2.2-2 [0.21 MB] (base)
>     Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering 
> capabilities
> extra/metalog 1.0-1 [0.02 MB]
>     Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd
> community/perl-device-modem 1.53-1 [0.04 MB]
>     Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port
> community/rsyslog 5.8.0-1 [0.25 MB] [installed]
>     An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and 
> reliability
> [marek at beruska ~]$ 
> 
> I thought pacman -Ss "string" searches packages' name and desc for the string, 
> I wonder why the perl things show up? 
> Cheers & happy Eastern! :)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Marek Otahal :o)

I guess it's because of the fact, that e.g.

pacman -Si perl|grep syslog

shows an output. It's the same for every of the packages which are being found.