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masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

wiki entry about pacman's misc options

Hello, I've been using Arch from time to time couple of years now (because of work I need to use windblows as my primary OS) and not long ago I find out about pacman's additional options (by accident), it would be easier for new users to find out about pacman and it's customization if someone with good english (not me;/) put paragraph about these options into wiki (also screenshot comparison of output with and without TotalDownload would be great, and some screenshot of what ShowSize actually do)

PS i can provide screenshots if someone think this is good idea and is willing to write some wiki paragraph

regards

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: wiki entry about pacman's misc options

There are man pages for pacman and pacman.conf, providing details of all available operations and associated options. I guess screenshots might be of use to some people.

Last edited by tomk (2011-07-05 18:01:44)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: wiki entry about pacman's misc options

There are man pages for pacman and pacman.conf, providing details of all avilable operations and associated options. I guess screenshots might be of use to some people.

I prefer listings to screenshots + we don't upload pictures to the wiki.

There's a manual for pacman and a separate one for pacman.conf where you can find info about the options available in pacman.conf.
Information where to look wrt to configuring pacman is included in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … figuration

Last edited by karol (2011-07-05 17:54:53)

masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

Re: wiki entry about pacman's misc options

I was thinking about neewbies, but it is actually mentioned in wiki so no problem