File 0003-Mention-environment-modifying-commands-in-the-man-pa.patch of Package scl-utils
From 063f87900f97903ca4c530f4e0ebff519f632352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Zeleny <jzeleny@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:42:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Mention environment-modifying commands in the man page --- scl.1 | 10 +++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scl.1 b/scl.1 index c9d322ddfa3671826c5f0f7c160fbc260d5007c9..cbefc44a7d539370065912021a62a39844a51f80 100644 --- a/scl.1 +++ b/scl.1 @@ -27,12 +27,18 @@ collections which are enabled by the lef .PP \fI<command>\fR is an arbitrary command or set of commands to execute within the Software Collection environment enabled. Control is returned back to the caller with the original -environment as soon as the command finishes. It \fI<command>\fR is '-' (dash) then it is +environment as soon as the command finishes. If \fI<command>\fR is '-' (dash) then it is read from the standard input. .PP -Note that if you use \fI<command>\fR consisting of multiple arguments, you either need to +Note: if you use \fI<command>\fR consisting of multiple arguments, you either need to use quotes or the \fB--\fP command separator. Everything that follows the separator will be considered a command or its argument. +.PP +Note: some commands modify user environment in some way. Those commands may +potentially break SCLs, as their activation also usually depends on env. +modification as well. Typical examples of such commands are \fBsu\fP and +\fBsudo\fP. Every collection modifies the environment differently, thus more +details may be found in the documentation of the particular collection. .SH "OPTIONS" .PP .IP "\fB-l, --list\fP" -- 1.8.3.1