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[–] 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

They S is for Sync. You're syncing a package from the repos.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacman.8.en

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    But what about pacman -Ss Sync search? P.S. I like pacman, just that this combination of flags is a bit weird for me personally.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    You wouldn't do that, its improper syntax. You'd do #pacman -Qs, Query local packages -> Search from within this set.

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