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@@ -197,9 +197,14 @@ Reverse Provides:
<varlistentry><term>search <replaceable>regex [ regex ... ]</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available package
- lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the
+ lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see
+ <refentrytitle><command>regex</command></refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>.
+ It searches the package names and the
descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out
- the package name and the short description. If <option>--full</option> is given
+ the package name and the short description, including virtual package
+ names.
+ If <option>--full</option> is given
then output identical to <literal>show</literal> is produced for each matched
package, and if <option>--names-only</option> is given then the long description
is not searched, only the package name is.</para>