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@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.

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

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