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| author | Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> | 2012-05-05 19:34:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2012-05-21 00:38:33 +0200 |
| commit | c2fdc38b78d9b83e783ff2ec3f8c4d53e7f45634 (patch) | |
| tree | be798a318162416f5e9a5e4b38c86420cf28b1b3 /doc | |
| parent | ceb23622097bb59ef568fd2565d71148069664c8 (diff) | |
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pacman: support group selection delimited by commas
We support multiple arguments being comma separated elsewhere, so this
seems like a natural extension to support in our multiparse selection
code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 275cf965..3b858037 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ Operations In addition to packages, groups can be specified as well. For example, if gnome is a defined package group, then `pacman -S gnome` will provide a prompt allowing you to select which packages to install from a numbered list. -The package selection is specified using a space separated list of package -numbers. Sequential packages may be selected by specifying the first and last -package numbers separated by a hyphen (`-`). Excluding packages is achieved by -prefixing a number or range of numbers with a caret (`^`). +The package selection is specified using a space and/or comma separated list of +package numbers. Sequential packages may be selected by specifying the first +and last package numbers separated by a hyphen (`-`). Excluding packages is +achieved by prefixing a number or range of numbers with a caret (`^`). + Packages that provide other packages are also handled. For example, `pacman -S foo` will first look for a foo package. If foo is not found, packages that |