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-rw-r--r--man/emerge.110
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 6088cdc0d..1eab6e50a 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -174,10 +174,12 @@ In versions of portage >=2.1.5 the \-\-metadata action is totally unnecessary
unless the user has enabled FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
.TP
.BR "\-\-prune " (\fB\-P\fR)
-\fBWARNING: This action can remove important packages!\fR Removes all but the
-highest installed version of a package from your system. Use \fB\-\-prune\fR
-together with \fB\-\-verbose\fR to show reverse dependencies or with
-\fB\-\-nodeps\fR to ignore all dependencies.
+Removes all but the highest installed version of a package from your
+system. Use \fB\-\-prune\fR together with \fB\-\-verbose\fR to show
+reverse dependencies or with \fB\-\-nodeps\fR to ignore all dependencies.
+\fBWARNING: This action can remove packages from your world file! Check
+the emerge output of the next \-\-depclean run carefully! Use
+\-\-depclean to avoid this issue.\fR
.TP
.BR \-\-regen
Causes portage to check and update the dependency cache of all ebuilds in the