Clarify --with-bdeps behavior with example. Thanks to Griffon26 for

this patch.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9725

diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 9e5aca44d5d7d2088aed9353701b8fd28915d451..fac737799ef3c1fb9ba6c555a2a347a1fc1f8f7a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -412,9 +412,11 @@ in order to indicate their status:
 \fI() circumfix\fR = forced, masked, or removed
 .TP
 .BR "\-\-with\-bdeps < y | n >"
-In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies that are not
-strictly required.   This defaults to \'n\' for installation actions and
-\'y\' for the \fB\-\-depclean\fR action.  This setting can be added to
+In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies
+that are not strictly required. This defaults to \'n\' for
+installation actions, meaning they will not be installed, and
+\'y\' for the \fB\-\-depclean\fR action, meaning they will not be removed.
+This setting can be added to
 \fBEMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS\fR (see make.conf(5)) and later overridden via the
 command line.
 .SH "ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS"