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diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/pkg_info.1 b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/pkg_info.1
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+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/pkg_info.1
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ Show the de-install script (if any) for each package.
.TP
.B \-r
Show the requirements script (if any) for each package.
+.TP
+.BI "\-l\ " str
+Prefix each catagory of information shown with
+.I str.
+This is primarily of use to front-end programs who want to request a
+lot of different information fields at once for a package, but don't
+necessary want the output intermingled in such a way that they can't
+organize it. This lets you add a special token to the start of
+each field.
.PP
.SH "TECHNICAL DETAILS"
Package info is either extracted from files supplied on the