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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-04-08 04:25:18 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-04-08 04:25:18 +0000
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Clarify --with-bdeps behavior with example. Thanks to Griffon26 for
this patch. (trunk r9725) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=9746
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@@ -410,9 +410,11 @@ 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"