Cedric Staniewski wrote:
Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <[email protected]>
---
 doc/makepkg.8.txt |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/makepkg.8.txt b/doc/makepkg.8.txt
index 703c1b0..ccb9a28 100644
--- a/doc/makepkg.8.txt
+++ b/doc/makepkg.8.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,21 @@ Environment Variables
        must be supported by this command. If the variable is not set or
        empty, makepkg will fall back to `pacman'.
+**PKGDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::
+       If this value is not set, packages will by default be placed in the
+       current directory (location of the linkman:PKGBUILD[5]). Many people
+       like to keep all their packages in one place so this option allows
+       this behavior. A common location is ``/home/packages''.
+       This environment variable will override the corresponding value
+       defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5].

I do not like the repetition of makepkg.conf.5 here.  I'd prefer just
**PKGDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::
        Overrides the corresponding value defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5].

Or something quite simple like that. People can then look up makepkg.conf.5 to find out what the variable does.


+
+**SRCDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::
+       If this value is not set, downloaded source files will only be stored
+       in the current directory. Many people like to keep all source files in
+       a central location for easy cleanup, so this path can be set here.
+       This environment variable will override the corresponding value
+       defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5].
+
Additional Features
 -------------------


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