From c2d6742b707375e7bbc927651f9cdec3f2818210 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:32:13 +0000
Subject: Add a --backtrack=COUNT option to control how many times backtracking
 is allowed, and reduce the default from 30 to 5.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=14763
---
 man/emerge.1 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 523c3197b..f8aa26d8a 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -276,6 +276,11 @@ 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\')
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