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

[Richard Schütz]

Am 22.04.2011 23:18, schrieb Marek Otahal:
> 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! :)
>

It's because the perl package provides perl-sys-syslog.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Schütz