Pacman architecture + searching packages via interface

Question

I am aware of the long discussions on GUI's for pacman. But we have to focus on the aspect of usefullness when talking about software development.
Pacman is a package installer etc.. and thus the link between a user and installing applications. Pacman is a very usefull tool/system: It is fast (using the wget option), doesn't breaks easily on dependencies, etc... . But pacman lacks on one big feature: searching!.
If I need to search for a application I will have to use the archlinux website! (using grep and pipe the output is not an option).
Of course I could use the pacman -Ss search-term command but then I could get a long list of unstructured results.
Also if i would like to batch some packages I have to type all of them at once -> this is not a preferable way of working. Whenever I like to install a number of packages at once I have to type all the names. Selecting them in a list is conveniance.
The kde application kpackage is perhaps the best way to implement this functionality. I found a lot of posts on a kpackage plugin but none very informative on the matther of existance.
I am not interested in a real GUI for pacman, but more specific information on pacmans architecture and possibilies to be implemented inside automatisation applications like kpackage.

Answer 1

This is simply not the case.
pacman -Ss p2p
extra/amule 2.0.0rc8-1
aMule is a eMule-like client for ed2k p2p network
extra/gift 0.11.8.1-1
A bridge between P2P protocols and front-ends.
extra/napshare 1.3-1
A complete, fully featured Gnutella P2P client
extra/xmule 1.9.5-1
An easy to use, multi-platform clone of the eMule P2P filesharing client
pacman -Ss p2p ftp
current/bftpd 1.0.24-2
A very configurable (and secure) Linux FTP server
current/gftp 2.0.18-1
A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
current/lftp 3.1.0-1
Sophisticated command line based FTP client
current/netkit-ftp 0.17-3
Commandline ftp client
current/netkit-tftp 0.17-3
This is netkit-tftp for Linux
current/proftpd 1.2.10-2
A high-performance, scalable FTP server
current/rssh 2.2.2-1
A restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp
current/snarf 7.0-2
Command-line URL retrieval tool (http/ftp/gopher)
current/vsftpd 2.0.2-1
Very Secure FTP daemon
extra/amule 2.0.0rc8-1
aMule is a eMule-like client for ed2k p2p network
extra/gift 0.11.8.1-1
A bridge between P2P protocols and front-ends.
extra/napshare 1.3-1
A complete, fully featured Gnutella P2P client
extra/xmule 1.9.5-1
An easy to use, multi-platform clone of the eMule P2P filesharing client
extra/kbear 2.1-2
A graphical ftp client for KDE
extra/ncftp 3.1.8-1
A set of free application programs implementing FTP
extra/pure-ftpd 1.0.20-2
Pure FTP Server is a fast, production quality, standards-conformant FTP
server
extra/sitecopy 0.14.3-1
Synchronize local and remote web site via FTP or WebDAV
extra/tftp-hpa 0.40-2
official tftp server
extra/weex 2.6.1.5-1
With weex, the maintainer of a web site or archive that must be administered
through FTP interaction can largely ignore that process
extra/wput 0.5-1
A command line tool to upload files to FTP site, the opposite to wget
searching for "p2p" gave me all the packages with p2p in their name/desc. Seaching for "p2p ftp" gave me all the ftp OR p2p pacakges.
Is that not what you want?