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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-04-05 23:22:59 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-04-05 23:22:59 +0000
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Clarify --with-bdeps behavior with example. Thanks to Griffon26 for
this patch. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9725
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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 9e5aca44..fac73779 100644
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+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -412,9 +412,11 @@ in order to indicate their status:
\fI() circumfix\fR = forced, masked, or removed
.TP
.BR "\-\-with\-bdeps < y | n >"
-In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies that are not
-strictly required. This defaults to \'n\' for installation actions and
-\'y\' for the \fB\-\-depclean\fR action. This setting can be added to
+In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies
+that are not strictly required. This defaults to \'n\' for
+installation actions, meaning they will not be installed, and
+\'y\' for the \fB\-\-depclean\fR action, meaning they will not be removed.
+This setting can be added to
\fBEMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS\fR (see make.conf(5)) and later overridden via the
command line.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS"