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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