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| author | James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> | 2008-11-08 21:55:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-11-09 13:56:00 +0100 |
| commit | 1c5e5d6277e513acb06ad4d2b6f43e98eb85bed4 (patch) | |
| tree | c32a94891954cb806bbd4195c2f03bd6a3c4850f | |
| parent | 41ec3548b058ebd4cea2eab5d74d583facca6e88 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1c5e5d6277e513acb06ad4d2b6f43e98eb85bed4.tar.xz | |
install: indicate clearly it's not for installing packages
* src/install.c (usage): Indicate the program copies files,
as opposed to installing packages.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/install.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/install.c b/src/install.c index a7c3b3d88..430e69ab9 100644 --- a/src/install.c +++ b/src/install.c @@ -816,6 +816,12 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST\n\ "), program_name, program_name, program_name, program_name); fputs (_("\ +\n\ +This install program copies files (often just compiled) into destination\n\ +locations you choose. If you want to download and install a ready-to-use\n\ +package on a GNU/Linux system, you should instead be using a package manager\n\ +like yum(1) or apt-get(1).\n\ +\n\ In the first three forms, copy SOURCE to DEST or multiple SOURCE(s) to\n\ the existing DIRECTORY, while setting permission modes and owner/group.\n\ In the 4th form, create all components of the given DIRECTORY(ies).\n\ |