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

[Jonathan Beatty]

On 04/22/2011 04:47 PM, Marek Otahal wrote:
> On Friday 22 of April 2011 23:23:03 Richard Schütz wrote:
>> 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.
> Thank you both, so pacman searches deeper than I expected.

Yes, pacman -Ss searches the -Qi for every package, not just the name 
and short description.