Re: man page update

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James Antill wrote:
Eric Shubert <ejs@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Greetings. I'm new to this list, so please be gentle.

I was recently shown that yum can find and select a package for
installation based on a feature or capability, such as:
# yum install "perl(Archive::Tar)"
This will determine which package contains the named perl module, and
install it if it's not already installed. Very cool.

When I read the man page (yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1), I see nothing
that even hints at this capability, unless I'm misreading it. It says
that a package name Should I be looking elsewhere for yum
documentation, or will the man page be updated/clarified at some point?

 I committed a few changes which might help, feel free to read it over
and give any suggestions:

 Full man page:
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/yum.8;hb=fccb827e4e63f3e7d30555af1bfa4399504e328c

 Diff:
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=fccb827e4e63f3e7d30555af1bfa4399504e328c


Looks good to me. Thank you very much!

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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