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authorDave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>2011-03-16 20:24:11 -0400
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-03-16 19:54:32 -0500
commit308aa38a40fb26d535f0b874bb64fe987126d03f (patch)
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parent3707d5bc468dcd8611073d22b24d6f6be19bbe94 (diff)
downloadpacman-308aa38a40fb26d535f0b874bb64fe987126d03f.tar.xz
pacman.8: (re)document behavior of reading from stdin
Change the term 'packages' to 'targets' in the synopsis as well, since command line parameters could just as well be groups, repos, or URLs. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pacman - package manager utility
Synopsis
--------
-'pacman' <operation> [options] [packages]
+'pacman' <operation> [options] [targets]
Description
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ Since version 3.0.0, pacman has been the frontend to linkman:libalpm[3], the
``Arch Linux Package Management'' library. This library allows alternative
front ends to be written (for instance, a GUI front end).
+Invoking pacman involves specifying an operation with any potential options and
+targets to operate on. A 'target' is usually a package name, filename, URL, or
+a search string. Targets can be provided as command line arguments.
+Additionally, if a single dash (-) is passed as an argument, targets will be
+read from stdin.
+
Operations
----------