pacman.8: (re)document behavior of reading from stdin

Change the term 'packages' to 'targets' in the synopsis as well, since
command line parameters could just as well be groups, repos, or URLs.

Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
index 7a13b897..249c774e 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pacman - package manager utility
 
 Synopsis
 --------
-'pacman' <operation> [options] [packages]
+'pacman' <operation> [options] [targets]
 
 
 Description
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ Since version 3.0.0, pacman has been the frontend to linkman:libalpm[3], the
 ``Arch Linux Package Management'' library. This library allows alternative
 front ends to be written (for instance, a GUI front end).
 
+Invoking pacman involves specifying an operation with any potential options and
+targets to operate on. A 'target' is usually a package name, filename, URL, or
+a search string. Targets can be provided as command line arguments.
+Additionally, if a single dash (-) is passed as an argument, targets will be
+read from stdin.
+
 
 Operations
 ----------