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diff --git a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
index 465911570..dd1488568 100644
--- a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
+++ b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
@@ -1202,26 +1202,18 @@ static bool GenCaches(CommandLine &)
return CacheFile.BuildCaches(&Progress, true);
}
/*}}}*/
-bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &, aptDispatchWithHelp const * Cmds) /*{{{*/
+bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &) /*{{{*/
{
std::cout <<
_("Usage: apt-cache [options] command\n"
" apt-cache [options] show pkg1 [pkg2 ...]\n"
"\n"
- "apt-cache is a low-level tool used to query information\n"
- "from APT's binary cache files\n")
- << std::endl;
- ShowHelpListCommands(Cmds);
- std::cout << std::endl
- << _("Options:\n"
- " -h This help text.\n"
- " -p=? The package cache.\n"
- " -s=? The source cache.\n"
- " -q Disable progress indicator.\n"
- " -i Show only important deps for the unmet command.\n"
- " -c=? Read this configuration file\n"
- " -o=? Set an arbitrary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp\n"
- "See the apt-cache(8) and apt.conf(5) manual pages for more information.\n");
+ "apt-cache queries and displays available information about installed\n"
+ "as well as installable packages. It works exclusively on the data\n"
+ "acquired via the 'update' command of e.g. apt-get to the local cache.\n"
+ "The displayed information can therefore be outdated if the last update\n"
+ "is too long ago, but in exchange apt-cache works independently of the\n"
+ "availability of the configured sources (e.g. offline).\n");
return true;
}
/*}}}*/