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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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Dave Reisner 2011-03-16 20:24:11 -04:00 committed by Dan McGee
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pacman - package manager utility
Synopsis
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'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
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