New Issue: [Bug]: 'mason system search' does not work

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28386, "jabraham17", "[Bug]: 'mason system search' does not work", "2026-02-10T17:08:32Z"

Mason provides the command mason system search to search for external packages using pkg-config. However, it has several issues.

  • mason system search relies on the logger to print its results, unlike any other search command in mason. it should silence the logger output and just print the results.
  • mason system search myPkg doesn't work at all
    • but mason system search --desc myPkg does
  • mason system search --no-show-desc myPkg also doesn't work

As an aside, mason system search and mason system pc do not have --help output that matches what the command does and should be updated. Also, neither command seems to be well tested (or even tested at all)