* Marek Otahal <markotahal@xxxxxxxxx> [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@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@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.
