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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-10-31 23:35:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-10-31 23:35:48 +0000 |
| commit | af58d636ac13513682e04ed8880dca42bff24520 (patch) | |
| tree | 1424d40405ddcb6eeeba3fc3efdbde552788958f /man | |
| parent | 3ea97985ed33afb010042d7694afe6633b6ea521 (diff) | |
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Add a --backtrack=COUNT option to control how many times backtracking is
allowed, and reduce the default from 30 to 5. (trunk r14763)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=14766
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 5 |
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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 81bcf1bbf..bb3234d17 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ acceptance of the first choice. This option is intended to be set in the \fBmake.conf\fR(5) \fBEMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS\fR variable. .TP +.BR \-\-backtrack=COUNT +Specifies an integer number of times to backtrack if +dependency calculation fails due to a conflict or an +unsatisfied dependency (default: \'5\'). +.TP .BR "\-\-binpkg\-respect\-use < y | n >" Tells emerge to ignore binary packages if their use flags don't match the current configuration. (default: \'n\') |