Bug 1326094

Summary: Getting help for commands is completely non-obvious
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component: dnfAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 24CC: jsilhan, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, vmukhame
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-04-18 12:33:55 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Adam Williamson 2016-04-11 19:43:06 UTC
I'm trying to get 'help' or a man page for 'dnf repoquery'.

Finding out how to do this is very difficult. AFAICT the only cryptic hint is at the very bottom of the (long) DNF man page:

SEE ALSO
ยท dnf.plugin.*(8), assorted DNF plugins that might be installed on the system.

and with a rather large logic leap, 'man dnf.plugin.repoquery' gets me to a man page. Actually I did not figure that out from the dnf man page, but by running `rpm -qa | grep dnf` then `rpm -ql dnf-plugins-core`, which is of course not exactly what we want to expect people to do just to figure out how to bloody well use repoquery.

Is there some reason `dnf repoquery --help` can't give help for repoquery, as opposed to just printing the same thing as `dnf --help`, which is useless for telling you how to use repoquery?

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2016-04-18 12:33:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1158548 ***