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Diffstat (limited to 'cmdline/apt-cache.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmdline/apt-cache.cc | 22 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc index 465911570..dd1488568 100644 --- a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc +++ b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc @@ -1202,26 +1202,18 @@ static bool GenCaches(CommandLine &) return CacheFile.BuildCaches(&Progress, true); } /*}}}*/ -bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &, aptDispatchWithHelp const * Cmds) /*{{{*/ +bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &) /*{{{*/ { std::cout << _("Usage: apt-cache [options] command\n" " apt-cache [options] show pkg1 [pkg2 ...]\n" "\n" - "apt-cache is a low-level tool used to query information\n" - "from APT's binary cache files\n") - << std::endl; - ShowHelpListCommands(Cmds); - std::cout << std::endl - << _("Options:\n" - " -h This help text.\n" - " -p=? The package cache.\n" - " -s=? The source cache.\n" - " -q Disable progress indicator.\n" - " -i Show only important deps for the unmet command.\n" - " -c=? Read this configuration file\n" - " -o=? Set an arbitrary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp\n" - "See the apt-cache(8) and apt.conf(5) manual pages for more information.\n"); + "apt-cache queries and displays available information about installed\n" + "as well as installable packages. It works exclusively on the data\n" + "acquired via the 'update' command of e.g. apt-get to the local cache.\n" + "The displayed information can therefore be outdated if the last update\n" + "is too long ago, but in exchange apt-cache works independently of the\n" + "availability of the configured sources (e.g. offline).\n"); return true; } /*}}}*/ |