Re: pacman: -Ss search results weird

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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@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! :)
> 
> It's because the perl package provides perl-sys-syslog.
Thank you both, so pacman searches deeper than I expected. 
-- 

Marek Otahal :o)

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