From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:14:34 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Update help for greedy behavior of --update.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.2~537
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b900376f3fcd5194ca6798712ac1706a4179f6e;p=portage.git

Update help for greedy behavior of --update.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=4853
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diff --git a/pym/emergehelp.py b/pym/emergehelp.py
index 45346b54b..c6c0e465d 100644
--- a/pym/emergehelp.py
+++ b/pym/emergehelp.py
@@ -141,8 +141,9 @@ def help(myaction,myopts,havecolor=1):
 		print "              Updates packages to the best version available, which may not"
 		print "              always be the highest version number due to masking for testing"
 		print "              and development. This will also update direct dependencies which"
-		print "              may not what you want. In general use this option only in combi-"
-		print "              nation with the world or system target."
+		print "              may not what you want. Package atoms specified on the command line"
+		print "              are greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may match multiple"
+		print "              installed versions of slotted packages."
 		print
 		print "       "+green("--version")+" ("+green("-V")+" short option)"
 		print "              Displays the currently installed version of portage along with"