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authorUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2022-01-08 12:42:39 +0100
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2022-01-08 12:56:11 +0100
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New global option --root
* bin/eselect.in: New global option --root. (es_do_help): Document it. * doc/user-guide.txt: * man/eselect.1: Document the --root option. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/man/eselect.1 b/man/eselect.1
index 22a2fcb..fad2aac 100644
--- a/man/eselect.1
+++ b/man/eselect.1
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
.\" -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-.\" Copyright 2005-2020 Gentoo Authors
+.\" Copyright 2005-2022 Gentoo Authors
.\" Distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 or later
.\"
-.TH ESELECT 1 "October 2011" "Gentoo Linux" eselect
+.TH ESELECT 1 "January 2022" "Gentoo Linux" eselect
.SH NAME
eselect \- Gentoo's multi\-purpose configuration and management tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ The default is
.BR auto ,
for which colour output is enabled only if standard output is
connected to a terminal.
+.TP
+.BI \-\-root= path
+The
+.I path
+that eselect should use as the target root filesystem for its operations.
+If not specified, the value of the
+.I ROOT
+environment variable is used as a default.
.SH BUILT-INS
.TP
.B help