Bug 1326094 - Getting help for commands is completely non-obvious
Summary: Getting help for commands is completely non-obvious
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1158548
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-11 19:43 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2016-04-18 12:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-04-18 12:33:55 UTC
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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 ***


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