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-rw-r--r--doc/pacman.8.txt8
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diff --git a/doc/index.txt b/doc/index.txt
index 0e037ac6..0d855bdf 100644
--- a/doc/index.txt
+++ b/doc/index.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Releases
`------------`-------
Date Version
---------------------
+2011-03-16 v3.5.0
2011-01-22 v3.4.3
2010-12-29 v3.4.2
2010-09-03 v3.4.1
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
----------