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.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "TLMGR 1"
-.TH TLMGR 1 "2010-10-29" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
+.TH TLMGR 1 "2010-11-17" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -382,9 +382,15 @@ written to the terminal. This is a more detailed report than \f(CW\*(C`\-\-list
.IP "\fB\-\-list\fR [\fIpkg\fR]" 4
.IX Item "--list [pkg]"
Concisely list the packages which would be updated, newly installed, or
-removed, without actually changing anything. If no package is given,
-this acts like \f(CW\*(C`\-\-list \-\-all\*(C'\fR, otherwise it lists only updates to the
-packages given as arguments (and its dependencies).
+removed, without actually changing anything.
+If \f(CW\*(C`\-\-all\*(C'\fR is given, it lists all available updates.
+If \f(CW\*(C`\-\-self\*(C'\fR is given, but not \f(CW\*(C`\-\-all\*(C'\fR lists only updates the the
+critical packages (tlmgr, texlive infrastructure, perl on Windows, etc.).
+If neither \f(CW\*(C`\-\-all\*(C'\fR nor \f(CW\*(C`\-\-self\*(C'\fR is given, and in addition no \fIpkg\fR
+is passed on the command line, then \f(CW\*(C`\-\-all\*(C'\fR is assumed (so
+\&\f(CW\*(C`tlmgr update \-\-list\*(C'\fR behaves like \f(CW\*(C`tlmgr update \-\-list \-\-all\*(C'\fR).
+If neither \f(CW\*(C`\-\-all\*(C'\fR nor \f(CW\*(C`\-\-self\*(C'\fR is given, but package names passed
+on the command line, those packages are checked for updates.
.IP "\fB\-\-exclude\fR \fIpkg\fR" 4
.IX Item "--exclude pkg"
Exclude \fIpkg\fR from the update process. If this option is given more