On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Matthias Gorissen wrote:

A user in the .de-forum pointed out that -h/ --help have the same output, even though the second version should display more info. Any thoughts on that?

LANG=C pacman --help usage: pacman <operation> [...] options: pacman {-h --help} pacman {-V --version} pacman {-Q --query} [options] [package] pacman {-R --remove} [options] <package> pacman {-S --sync} [options] [package] pacman {-U --upgrade} [options] <file> use 'pacman --help' with other options for more syntax -h and --help are identical. The important part here is : WITH other options

Am Donnerstag 07 August 2008 17:20:06 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

-h is just an alias for --help. Maybe this is confusing: Benutzen Sie 'pacman --help' mit anderen Optionen für mehr Informationen ^^^^^^^^^^^ So you get more help when typing something like pacman -S --help

I see that, too, and will fwd that.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 07 August 2008 17:04:22 schrieb Matthias Gorissen:

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A user in the .de-forum pointed out that -h/ --help have the same output, even though the second version should display more info. Any thoughts on that?

-h is just an alias for --help. Maybe this is confusing: Benutzen Sie 'pacman --help' mit anderen Optionen für mehr Informationen ^^^^^^^^^^^ So you get more help when typing something like pacman -S --help

Good catch, is there any way we can clarify this wording a little. Even in english it's a shade unclear.

Perhaps: - use 'pacman --help' with other options for more syntax + use 'pacman --help' with other options for help on the specific option

Realize 'pacman -h' is identical too. Perhaps we should change the line that says only "options:" to be "operations:" and then: + use {-h --help} with an operation for available options