Send patches - preferably formatted by git format-patch - to patches at archlinux32 dot org.
summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/pacman.8.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/pacman.8.txt')
-rw-r--r--doc/pacman.8.txt17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
index c47af65e..c5b0f479 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
@@ -229,14 +229,15 @@ Remove Options[[RO]]
Sync Options[[SO]]
------------------
*-c, \--clean*::
- Remove old packages from the cache as well as unused sync databases to
- free up disk space. When pacman downloads packages, it saves them in a
- cache directory. In addition, databases are saved for every sync DB you
- download from, and are not deleted even if they are removed from the
- configuration file linkman:pacman.conf[5]. Use one '\--clean' switch to
- only remove old packages; use two to remove all packages from the cache.
- In both cases, you will have a yes or no option to remove packages and/or
- unused downloaded databases.
+ Remove packages that are no longer installed from the cache as well as
+ currently unused sync databases to free up disk space. When pacman
+ downloads packages, it saves them in a cache directory. In addition,
+ databases are saved for every sync DB you download from, and are not
+ deleted even if they are removed from the configuration file
+ linkman:pacman.conf[5]. Use one '\--clean' switch to only remove
+ packages that are no longer installed; use two to remove all packages
+ from the cache. In both cases, you will have a yes or no option to
+ remove packages and/or unused downloaded databases.
*-e, \--dependsonly*::
Install all dependencies of a package, but not the specified package