From 308aa38a40fb26d535f0b874bb64fe987126d03f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Reisner Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:24:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Dan McGee --- doc/pacman.8.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 7a13b897..249c774e 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pacman - package manager utility Synopsis -------- -'pacman' [options] [packages] +'pacman' [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 ----------