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diff --git a/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/removepkg.8 b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/removepkg.8
index 3bd8bf7a7..d6be202c2 100644
--- a/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/removepkg.8
+++ b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/removepkg.8
@@ -19,16 +19,19 @@ removepkg \- remove Slackware packages.
]
.B removepkg
[
-.B \-copy
+.B \--copy
]
[
-.B \-keep
+.B \--keep
]
[
-.B \-preserve
+.B \--preserve
]
[
-.B \-warn
+.B \--terse
+]
+[
+.B \--warn
]
.BI packagename
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -36,14 +39,14 @@ removepkg \- remove Slackware packages.
removes a previously installed Slackware package, while writing a progress
report to the standard output. A package may be specified either by the
full package name (as you'd see listed in /var/log/packages/), or by the
-base package name. For example, the package foo-1.0-i486-1.tgz may be removed
+base package name. For example, the package foo-1.0-i586-1.txz may be removed
with any of the following commands:
-removepkg foo-1.0-i486-1.tgz (also recognized: .tbz, .tlz, .txz)
+removepkg foo-1.0-i586-1.txz (also recognized: .tgz, .tbz, .tlz)
-removepkg foo-1.0-i486-1
+removepkg foo-1.0-i586-1
-removepkg foo.tgz
+removepkg foo.txz
removepkg foo
@@ -72,22 +75,25 @@ When removing a package, it's original file index will be moved from
script will be moved from /var/log/scripts to /var/log/removed_scripts.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.B \-warn packagename
-Generate a report to the standard output about which files and directories
-would be removed, but does not actually remove the package.
-.TP
-.B \-preserve packagename
-If specified, the complete package subtree is reconstructed in
-/var/log/setup/tmp/preserved_packages/packagename.
-.TP
-.B \-copy packagename
+.B \--copy packagename
Construct a copy of the package under /var/log/setup/tmp/preserved_packages/packagename,
but don't remove it. (same effect as \-warn \-preserve)
.TP
-.B \-keep
-Save the intermediate files created by removepkg (delete_list,
-required_files, uniq_list, del_link_list, required_links,
+.B \--keep
+Save the intermediate files created by removepkg (delete_list,
+required_files, uniq_list, del_link_list, required_links,
required_list). Mostly useful for debugging purposes.
+.TP
+.B \--preserve packagename
+If specified, the complete package subtree is reconstructed in
+/var/log/setup/tmp/preserved_packages/packagename.
+.TP
+.B \--terse
+Remove the package displaying only a single description line to stdout.
+.TP
+.B \--warn packagename
+Generate a report to the standard output about which files and directories
+would be removed, but does not actually remove the package.
.SH " "
It's possible to remove a package from a filesystem
other than / by supplying