[pacman-dev] [PATCH] 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> --- src/pacman/pacman.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c index 2847fd5..0ad0354 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; } -- 1.7.4.1
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