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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-07-15 23:19:16 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-07-15 23:19:16 +0000
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Add some cross references between emerge's new parallel build options and
MAKEOPTS. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11063
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diff --git a/pym/_emerge/help.py b/pym/_emerge/help.py
index 756f9156b..bf6a13834 100644
--- a/pym/_emerge/help.py
+++ b/pym/_emerge/help.py
@@ -319,7 +319,14 @@ def help(myaction,myopts,havecolor=1):
desc = "Specifies that no new builds should " + \
"be started if there are other builds " + \
"running and the load average is at " + \
- "least LOAD (a floating-point number)."
+ "least LOAD (a floating-point number). " + \
+ "This option is recommended for use " + \
+ "in combination with --jobs in " + \
+ "order to avoid excess load. See " + \
+ "make(1) for information about " + \
+ "analogous options that should be " + \
+ "configured via MAKEOPTS in " + \
+ "make.conf(5)."
for line in wrap(desc, desc_width):
print desc_indent + line
print