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>

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.