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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2018-01-19 21:47:26 +1000 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2018-01-19 21:47:26 +1000 |
| commit | a278356f75866f89232e3e6230bbf9fb2dc1893c (patch) | |
| tree | c980b8a12ac36a64f9b4b08d76c4c03f4d7bb491 /doc | |
| parent | a7dbe4635b4af9b5bd927ec0e7a211d1f6c1b0f2 (diff) | |
| download | pacman-a278356f75866f89232e3e6230bbf9fb2dc1893c.tar.xz | |
Deprecate --root in favour of --sysroot
The --root option was widely misunderstood, and is now replaced by
--sysroot.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 48958358..a395b777 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -133,16 +133,6 @@ Options *NOTE*: If specified, this is an absolute path, and the root path is not automatically prepended. -*-r, \--root* <path>:: - Specify an alternative installation root (default is `/`). This should - not be used as a way to install software into `/usr/local` instead of - `/usr`. - *NOTE*: If database path or log file are not specified on either the - command line or in linkman:pacman.conf[5], their default location will - be inside this root path. - *NOTE*: This option is not suitable for performing operations on a mounted - guest system. See '\--sysroot' instead. - *-v, \--verbose*:: Output paths such as as the Root, Conf File, DB Path, Cache Dirs, etc. |