[patch] patch for man/emerge.1

diff (text/plain), 2.05 KB, created by Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) on 2003-09-13 02:04:31 UTC

--- emerge.1.orig	2003-09-13 10:23:01.000000000 +0200
+++ emerge.1	2003-09-13 10:47:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@
 shells you will need to escape characters such as '<' and '=';
 use single\- or double\-quotes around the \fIdependency\fR
 to get around escaping problems.
+.SH "HELP"
+.TP
+.BR "--help " (\fB\-h\fR)
+Displays help information for emerge.  Adding one of the additional
+arguments listed above will give you more specific help information
+on that subject.  The internal \fBemerge\fR help documentation is
+updated more frequently than this man page; check it out if you
+are having problems that this man page does not help resolve.
 .SH "ACTIONS"
 .TP
 .BR "No action"
@@ -100,13 +108,6 @@
 \fBNote that changes in USE flags can drastically affect the
 output of depclean.\fR
 .TP
-.BR "help " (\fB\-h\fR)
-Displays help information for emerge.  Adding one of the additional
-arguments listed above will give you more specific help information
-on that subject.  The internal \fBemerge\fR help documentation is
-updated more frequently than this man page; check it out if you
-are having problems that this man page does not help resolve.
-.TP
 .BR info
 This is a list of information to include in bug reports which aids
 the developers with fixing any problems you may report.  \fBPlease
@@ -289,7 +290,7 @@
 .BR "--verbose " (\fB\-v\fR)
 Tell emerge to run in verbose mode.  Currently this flag causes emerge to print out GNU info errors, if any.
 .TP
-.BR "--version\fR
+.BR "--version " (\fB\-V\fR)
 Displays the version number of \fBemerge\fR.  It cannot be used in
 conjunction with other options; the name and format of the action
 is a convention.
@@ -451,8 +452,8 @@
 edit this file\fR.
 .TP
 \fB/etc/make.profile/use.defaults\fR
-Contains the USE flags that are enabled by default.  \fBDo not edit this
-file\fR.
+Contains a list of packages which, if installed, cause the respective use
+flag to be enabled by default.  \fBDo not edit this file\fR.
 .TP
 \fB/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc\fR 
 Contains the master list of USE flags with descriptions of their