RPM

Comment 3 for bug 911339

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Jeff Johnson (n3npq) wrote :

Many RPM "options" are actually POPT aliases: in fact most of
the options that users wish to have documented are POPT aliases.

Since POPT aliases are a configurable extension displayed by --help,
I would claim that the man page is *NOT* the place to document
because configurable options are intended to change in opaque
manners that cannot be documented.

So the rule
    If an option is in --help, then it should be "documented".
isn't adequate because POPT aliases are in --help and not
(by conscious intent) in the man pages.

You can of course patch the man pages in Mandriva/ROSA however you wish.