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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-03-25 13:47:27 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-03-25 13:47:27 -0500
commite214b260efcba299611688bdbbc02b7391632d43 (patch)
treeb430c7a22d3bb42d15842c89c2ab10f3c87d27e4 /src/pacman
parentc37c9c5dcae06c1585b4da4c0b838f5b44e1498e (diff)
Update usage instruction strings
* Address FS#23433 by documenting -d vs. -dd * Drop the useless "as well", "also", "too", and "that won't break packages" strings from -R usage * Fix alignment of multiline strings in source (no string change) Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/pacman')
-rw-r--r--src/pacman/pacman.c17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
index 2847fd50..0ad03540 100644
--- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
+++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static void usage(int op, const char * const myname)
char const * const str_usg = _("usage");
char const * const str_opr = _("operation");
+ /* please limit your strings to 80 characters in width */
if(op == PM_OP_MAIN) {
printf("%s: %s <%s> [...]\n", str_usg, myname, str_opr);
printf(_("operations:\n"));
@@ -132,10 +133,10 @@ static void usage(int op, const char * const myname)
printf("%s: %s {-R --remove} [%s] <%s>\n", str_usg, myname, str_opt, str_pkg);
printf("%s:\n", str_opt);
addlist(_(" -c, --cascade remove packages and all packages that depend on them\n"));
- addlist(_(" -n, --nosave remove configuration files as well\n"));
- addlist(_(" -s, --recursive remove dependencies also (that won't break packages)\n"
- " (-ss includes explicitly installed dependencies too)\n"));
- addlist(_(" -u, --unneeded remove unneeded packages (that won't break packages)\n"));
+ addlist(_(" -n, --nosave remove configuration files\n"));
+ addlist(_(" -s, --recursive remove unnecessary dependencies\n"
+ " (-ss includes explicitly installed dependencies)\n"));
+ addlist(_(" -u, --unneeded remove unneeded packages\n"));
} else if(op == PM_OP_UPGRADE) {
printf("%s: %s {-U --upgrade} [%s] <%s>\n", str_usg, myname, str_opt, str_file);
printf("%s:\n", str_opt);
@@ -186,16 +187,16 @@ static void usage(int op, const char * const myname)
addlist(_(" --asexplicit install packages as explicitly installed\n"));
addlist(_(" --ignore <pkg> ignore a package upgrade (can be used more than once)\n"));
addlist(_(" --ignoregroup <grp>\n"
- " ignore a group upgrade (can be used more than once)\n"));
+ " ignore a group upgrade (can be used more than once)\n"));
/* pass through */
case PM_OP_REMOVE:
- addlist(_(" -d, --nodeps skip dependency checks\n"));
+ addlist(_(" -d, --nodeps skip dependency version checks (-dd to skip all checks)\n"));
addlist(_(" -k, --dbonly only modify database entries, not package files\n"));
addlist(_(" --noprogressbar do not show a progress bar when downloading files\n"));
addlist(_(" --noscriptlet do not execute the install scriptlet if one exists\n"));
- addlist(_(" --print only print the targets instead of performing the operation\n"));
+ addlist(_(" --print print the targets instead of performing the operation\n"));
addlist(_(" --print-format <string>\n"
- " specify how the targets should be printed\n"));
+ " specify how the targets should be printed\n"));
break;
}