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List:       gentoo-portage-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/emerge.1: clarify --buildpkg-exclude wrt *-backup FEATURES (533036)
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-12-26 22:31:51
Message-ID: 1419633111-31337-1-git-send-email-zmedico () gentoo ! org
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The --buildpkg-exclude option does not affect downgrade-backup or
unmerge-backup features, since having this option disable backups is
not necessarily desirable.

X-Gentoo-Bug: 533036
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533036
---
 man/emerge.1 | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index faa1f33..9950bf9 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -403,7 +403,9 @@ live filesystem.
 .BR "\-\-buildpkg\-exclude " ATOMS
 A space separated list of package atoms for which
 no binary packages should be built. This option overrides all
-possible ways to enable building of binary packages.
+possible ways to enable building of binary packages except for
+the downgrade\-backup and unmerge\-backup \fBFEATURES\fR settings (see
+\fBmake.conf\fR(5) for more information about \fBFEATURES\fR settings).
 .TP
 .BR "\-\-buildpkgonly " (\fB\-B\fR)
 Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually
-- 
2.0.5


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